If physical aesthetics is inherently a social requisite...?

Question

then will the real Micheal Jackson please stand up?

Answer 1

i've never heard anyone use the term "physical aesthetics" before. it seems like such a complicated term to describe such a simple thing. "physical attractiveness" would have been fine.

as for the question, i won't even bother.

Answer 2

Aesthetics is pleasing to the senses, but the question doesn't have a straight-forward answer. You're asking if being beautiful is socially required (for upward mobility, benefits, goods, etc). Yes, is the short answer, but not without an explanation. There are exceptions.
There are many psychological (social psychology) studies on how beauty affects different aspects of social life (business/work, how others help you based on beauty, how teachers are rated, etc). While studies are interesting, they don't necessarily tell you the ins and outs of the realities of having beauty. If you're beautiful, you'll get sexual advances at an earlier age. If you're not beautiful/uncomfortable with your body (or you don't know your worth), you will perhaps be more sexually risky and put yourself out there (studies have proved this). If you're a female and truly beautiful, you will be able to move up the socio-economic scale simply by marriage or becoming an actress/entertainer. Your face and body is then your ticket upwards. If one chooses this route, one must be prepared to give up body because the entertainment business is like that.

Here's the explanation for exceptions. Everyone loves to think themselves beautiful or improve their beauty, but people also get envious of others, esp. women! They will hate you for your beauty because then you are competitive and a threat to them for resources/mate (men, esp men with money). I don't want to go on further because I feel like I may be getting too much into this when you may not be seeking all this info...

But basically to wrap it up, beauty is an asset, but when balanced with well-developed thinking skills, you can protect yourself from harm and naivite. Beauty is not the ultimate social requisite. It takes charm, personality, good speech skills, social skills, and intelligence to create a good package of a person. Nothing is so inane as an underdevelped brain in a beautiful shell. The mind is the greatest social requisite, not beauty.. Beauty is over-rated if you think yourself outside this competitive mate-finding crappy rat race. Life isn't about mate-finding and procreation. Once that is established as truth, beauty is just that... beauty, nothing more. Being ugly isn't all bad, i mean... like I said, intelligence reigns supreme.

Answer 3

A criteria for what constitutes a social requisite, would entirely depend on to what extent a society has evolved or atleast 'retained' values !
Nothing prevents even now, from individuals to 'recognise' the real Micheal Jacksons' lying strewn all over, except the 'eye' that is not opaqued due to 'dark' glasses of just skin-deep visibility !

Answer 4

As a matter of fact, aesthetics is just for social obligation.

Just imaging, will we be so concerned about our look and feel if we were alone in a island? No one bother about his/her own look but take others look & feel as important.

As a human, we need to comment others just to satisfy our own ego.

There is no need and will not be any aesthetic sense when we understand the basic fact that we dress and act only for others and not for ourselves! We do only very few things only for us like eating, sleeping etc, which are essential for living.

Answer 5

Intelligence is also a requisite...

Answer 6

OK. Here ! Ready for you!!