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Aesthetics
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
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Think of cocaine. In its natural form, as coca leaves, it's appealing, but not to an extent that it usually becomes a problem. But refine it, purify it, and you get a compound that hits your pleasure receptors with an unnatural intensity. That's when it becomes addictive.
Beauty has undergone a similar process, thanks to advertisers. Evolution gave us a circuit that responds to good looks - call it the pleasure receptor for our visual cortex - and in our natural environment, it was useful to ha
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― Stories of Your Life and Others
― Stories of Your Life and Others
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We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce, then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light—
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― In Praise of Shadows
― In Praise of Shadows
The Aesethic Guide group is going to have topics on different aesthetics and how tos! plus of co…more
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A place for fans of the decadents, the surrealists, the symbolists, the expats, the occultists, …more
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♡A group for lovers of YA books, Christ, polls, all the season, aesthetic things, and games♡
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