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The Greatest Privilege We Hardly Talk About: Beauty
I feel like we all know that social media incentivizes us to craft consumable personas, to prioritize surface-level aesthetic experiences over privately-held and deeply-felt emotional ones, to run on envy and memetic desire and competitive self-optimization, to buy things in order to better sell ourselves. We know, too, these are pressures that fal... See more
Poser ethics
Toni Morrison on beauty:
“I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don’t think it’s a privilege or an indulgence, it’s not even a quest. I think it’s almost like knowledge, which is to say, it’s what we were born for. I think finding, incorporating and then representing beauty is what humans do. With or without authorities telling us what it is... See more
“I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don’t think it’s a privilege or an indulgence, it’s not even a quest. I think it’s almost like knowledge, which is to say, it’s what we were born for. I think finding, incorporating and then representing beauty is what humans do. With or without authorities telling us what it is... See more
Shane Parrish • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Instagram? First: what matters is how you look on the outside.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Being in the presence of a world-class beauty can be as thrilling as listening to a world-class soprano. Gifted individuals aren’t the only ones who benefit from their gifts; we all do.
Ted Chiang • Stories of Your Life and Others: Ted Chiang
from easy shopping to better job and romantic opportunities, society promotes and rewards thinness and punishes fat.