Can the Olympics Save the World?
Beauty standards have been narrowed by advertisers and media companies. Can the Olympics heal our broken eyes?
The Art of the Flower of Peerless Charm
There is something not quite right about the modern world, beyond all the injustice and suffering, the arms races and political power struggles. Something is missing.
We all feel it, to one extent or another, this nameless affliction, this absence. In many ways we have it better than 99.9% of human beings who have ever lived- most of whom didn’t live half as long as we will.
Yet, we feel unfulfilled, lost.
For all our modern conveniences and endless entertainment options we still feel narrowed, blinkered, and cloistered. We have a near-universal fear of missing out because we are missing out, on something we can’t even define.
What is missing is beauty. More specifically, a wider framework for the concept of beauty- beyond our navel-gazing preoccupation with human beauty. (Though that needs work, too.)
There is no shortage of beauty- it’s everywhere. We are drowning in an ocean of it. We are dying of thirst in a pure wellspring of fulfillment and joy. Why?
There is nothing wrong with our bodies, in their infinite variations on the same…