yue
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It is well known that the Greeks had reverence for youthful, strong beauty. The gymnasiums and oil and wrestling and grappling and whatnot. And in their statues, you can see they had an eye for aesthetics.
Of course, much of daily life is lost through the ravages of time. Perhaps Hippocrates wrote treatises on an ancient form of lefort 1. Perhaps some Greek midwives would tell mothers to make sure their children breathed only through their nose. If not put down in writing, these ideas last only as long as a generation, and our preceding generations have taken a rather unhealthy approach to aesthetics, primarily in the case of postmodern art. Of course, humans have not changed much at all, so these so called movements in the art world don't mean much when every baby is born with a similar eye for what is aesthetic and what is not.
Just as the moderns have made sex taboo and thus made everyone a sexual deviant, they've made human aesthetics taboo and made everyone an autistic looksmaxxer. But an appreciation for good looks is an eternal virtue.
I'll end with what Francis Bacon says in his essay on beauty: Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and, for the most part, it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtues shine, and vices blush.
Of course, much of daily life is lost through the ravages of time. Perhaps Hippocrates wrote treatises on an ancient form of lefort 1. Perhaps some Greek midwives would tell mothers to make sure their children breathed only through their nose. If not put down in writing, these ideas last only as long as a generation, and our preceding generations have taken a rather unhealthy approach to aesthetics, primarily in the case of postmodern art. Of course, humans have not changed much at all, so these so called movements in the art world don't mean much when every baby is born with a similar eye for what is aesthetic and what is not.
Just as the moderns have made sex taboo and thus made everyone a sexual deviant, they've made human aesthetics taboo and made everyone an autistic looksmaxxer. But an appreciation for good looks is an eternal virtue.
I'll end with what Francis Bacon says in his essay on beauty: Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and, for the most part, it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtues shine, and vices blush.
