01-10-2012, 12:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-10-2012, 12:43 PM by SomaticDreams.)
(01-10-2012, 06:41 AM)drifting pages Wrote: Whats wrong with being beautiful though, i like looking good when i see myself in the mirror.
Not just because people appreciate it but because i appreciate it in myself.
Empowerment is the key, people should be able to look as anything they wish to, at any given moment.
Complete control over how you look, what gender, what species and how "old".
This has nothing to do with manipulating others and everything with allowing and power of choice and freedom to be.
One can only be 'empowered' by being accepted by perceived 'otherselves'. The standard of which you define as 'good looking' or 'fair' is based off of your experience with other-selves. So no, it is not just the "power of choice and the freedom to be".
The distortion of free will and the law of confusion are in play here. We both rely on our social constructs of "beauty" and looks- but also we have a choice on how to redefine such things. This argument could easily be reduced to the western problem of "The one and the many" or related to the interdependence of dual natures, but I think focusing our discussion on this level is very useful, in the context of our society, so focused on this ideal of physical appearance.
This is a general question/experiment for others to try out on the nature of beauty:
When you find someone beautiful, is only informed by social norms, or your own subjective, innate feeling of beauty?
Can you look at someone, first find them ugly, but then get to know them and they appear more beautiful, and get more beautiful as you get to know them better?
I'm sure you all can think of experiences, where this has been the case.