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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