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The Greatest Privilege We Hardly Talk About: Beauty
Beauty is a leading indicator of health capital, and the defining feature of health capital is that all of our upside is bounded. Mobility, fitness, energy, and attractiveness act as a sort of force multiplier on all our other efforts, and are certainly worth having, but they're subject to hard limits. You can be 10x richer, more knowledgeable, or
... See moreRichard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
Attraction or being attractive consists of appetite or desire, the ability to consume, and acknowledging and appreciating what was consumed. A gratified person is extremely beautiful and radiant. The acts of acknowledging and appreciating life’s wonderful gifts, large and small, allows both men and women to swallow (that is, to fully absorb) what t
... See moreSteve Bodansky • Extended Massive Orgasm, Updated and Illustrated: How you can give and receive intense sexual pleasure (Positively Sexual)
But beauty is a spiritual matter, and as such it is no respecter of social status. Beauty opens onto the world beyond our private concerns.
Wendy Farley • Beguiled by Beauty
A first human look - that’s your innate reaction to something that sets itself apart from the norm. It could be wealth, it could be influence, or it could be looks. It’s whatever makes them impressive or desirable at first glance.
Case Kenny • That's Bold of You: How To Thrive as Your Most Vibrant, Weird, and Real Self
People are more attractive and sophisticated
The School of Life • A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease and clarity
The default assumption tends to be that it is politically important to designate everyone as beautiful, that it is a meaningful project to make sure that everyone can become, and feel, increasingly beautiful. We have hardly tried to imagine what it might look like if our culture could do the opposite—de-escalate the situation, make beauty matter le... See more