Can Beauty Be A Source Of Joy?
The Beauty of an Ordinary Life: Romanticising the Mundane Changed My D
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The tragedy is that as we distance ourselves from the delight of our youth, we become increasingly prone to disillusionment. Wonder and beauty are not precise cures for disillusionment, but they certainly can stave off the despair of it. To reclaim the awe of our child-selves, to allow ourselves to be taken by the beauty of a thing, allows goodness
... See moreCole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
I want to explore what feels like the transcendent power of beauty to change our lives. That was the motivating question behind Beautiful World, Where Are You—the title sums it up. I have spoken about my ideological commitments—how I look at the contemporary world through a Marxist lens and through the lens of climate change, and how I feel like we
... See moreimportant, it is easy to feel uncomfortable about enjoying the aesthetic side of design, because it can feel superficial to care about how things look. Equally problematic is our growing suspicion of beauty, especially the conventional variety, at a time when cut-price cosmetic surgery, jaw-dropping digital effects in movies and the digital retouch... See more