Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Why beauty will never be permanently usurped by ugliness


In one of his amusing and gutsy columns Taki Theodoracopulos mentioned the ancient Greek belief that an ugly countenance comes from within and portrays an ugly soul. That also makes sense when we consider less romantic genetics: sexual selection often chooses beauty because beauty indicates a healthier reproductive partner.

Money can displace beauty, and even buy beauty, but if beauty and and health are hijacked for money the reproductive product may be damaged down the line. Instinctively healthy young people often still get into trouble with their older more venal advisers because they tend to choose beauty over everything else.

And in spite of the radical feminists and cultural Marxists who are trying to promote ugly people, advertisers, movie producers and beauty contests still, usually, prefer beauty because it sells better than ugliness.

But the Greeks, radical feminists, and cultural Marxists took beauty down the wrong metaphysical path when they made absolute beauty a nonphysical, non-material thing. And they did the same spiritualization to truth and goodness. Traditional religions did the same thing, and soon real physical beauty took second and third place to mere ideas, at least with philosophers and theologians.

We evolve to Godhood in the material and supermaterial world, and Godhood is the zenith of beautiful, living, material/supermaterial objects.  So beauty, truth and goodness will never be permanently usurped by ugliness.

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