No matter how much money we make or how pompously we sip our tea, in the end most of us are still animals driven by a biological imperative. I’m reminded of this more and more watching all forms of media. Beauty, see, drives a lot of the media message. I’m hard pressed to think of the last time I saw an ugly news anchor—especially a female one. Women are subject to the rule of beauty more than men, but we are in no way immune to its pull.
I’ve seen all manor of product sold with beauty. The webserver this very site lives on is sold on the back of beauty. Appropriately dressed yet sublimely attractive women beckon you to the front page with the forward promise of affordable technology and the implicit promise of being in the presence if not being recognized by beauty. I think that is the problem there—we want to have beauty or to be beautiful so much that it creates a subconscious binding to all things beautiful in the sense that we want beauty and anything that consciously represents that is something we subconsciously yearn for.
There is nothing to be done about this relationship with beauty, but understanding in allows us a modicum of freedom. The things we understand and are consciously aware of are the things that we have the ability to affect, if only a little.
Some Thoughts:
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