2006-07-23 17:21:51 · 9 answers · asked by The Lioness 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Society, culture etc. It's always changing and constantly keeping us on the run to keep up with it's demand. Even body piercings, which is the last decades version of counter-culture behavior has really just turned into yet another fashion/fad that evryone has to try to do now. We humans are so naive and gullable. I wish we could just be happy being just as we came into this world, with no additions or subtractions.
I heard a statistical study recently that said: if everyone woke up on the same morning and looked in the mirror and said "I'm perfectly fine just the way I am." the world economy would collapse within 15 days. That's how interwoven our aestetics are into everything around us.
My eyes were opened as a young man to the deception I was under. My epiphany if you will. I was perusing the greeting card store for a friends birthday. I was looking in the humor section. I found a card that said something like "Here's a special woman for your birthday." Inside was a sexy dressed woman striking a seductive pose with one hand on her head. The joke was supposed to be that she had hairy armpits. Now, at that point in my life I had never actually seen hairy armpits on a woman. I had always just assumed that the cultural norm was correct, that hairy armpits on a woman was somehow naturally hideous. However, when I saw this picture, it caught me off guard. I stood there in the store for a minute trying to compute but then came up with the question: "Wait a minute, why is this ugly?" I realized that it actually looked quite natural and beautiful.
Since that moment I have questioned everything that is supposed to be beautiful and ugly according to society. I had hoped to marry a woman who was more free from the constraints of society. However, that is a hard thing to find in north america. I had to be content in knowing that I married her for her inner beauty and just continue to pray for her and the rest of women in society that they will one day learn that they were beautiful right from the start, just as God created them. They need nothing else.
2006-07-31 03:46:40 · answer #1 · answered by jp 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Since vision is one of the major senses we have we have always looked for the beautiful and aestheticly pleasing things in life; art, music, physical beauty, archeteture. Men have heightened visionary perceptions and this causes men to enjoy the physical visual beauty. With the recent media explosion allowing us to instantly compair billions of pictures, this fixation has increased.
Physical attractivness has many universal qualities (like the golden ratio, and waist to hip ratio ... even babies who have not been culturly influenced do prefer the faces that follow the golden ratio.
The more advanced we get the more time we have to focus our energies on the aesthetically pleasing. Stuff like plumbing, running water, sewar systems, electricity, energy, are all meet, then we can focus more intently on beauty (physical or other). Once the basics are taken away, beauty is still desired, however, in chaotic times, beauty is often a curse (with stuff like rape).
2006-07-29 17:36:46 · answer #2 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not, b/c I don't care...
I'm more interested in what people really are...
;-)
Anyways, I think it has something to do with both Psychology and Sociology ...
I think we learn to be bias and then internalize it, being fixated on physical aesthetics is just ONE of the many symptoms from such an oppressive/suppressive state of mind...
2006-07-24 02:17:07 · answer #3 · answered by Am 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans on average don't know who they are as entities and they distract themselves from ever learning the answer to that question. Therefore people are hollow and imperfect on the inside. Physicality is something that we feel we can kind of control. Therefore we use it to compensate for that which we can not provide inwardly....and stuff.
2006-07-24 02:30:09 · answer #4 · answered by bengalicyberia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because beauty is a source of pleasure, and pleasure elevates life.
2006-07-24 11:21:34 · answer #5 · answered by Keither 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because people see the outside of things (and take it for face value), rather then taking the time to understand what it is.
2006-07-24 00:26:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's the only thing we have to distract us from the burning questions like "Why am I here?" and "What is God?"
2006-07-24 00:31:02 · answer #7 · answered by Clambo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
vanity. perfectionism. Hollywood. narcissism.
any questions?
2006-07-24 04:37:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because its the cover that make us wanna look in the book (sometimes)
2006-07-24 00:27:09 · answer #9 · answered by kind2all 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋