NeoDandi
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Beauty is terrifying because it highlights what's ugly.
Beauty shows you that you aren't what you should be.
Hence people are afraid of beauty as real beauty has a depth that allows people to transcend and get in touch with the divine. This cannot be reduced down to simple and easy metrics.
What makes a painting worth billions and have people line up for hours to see it it's not a single feature of it or the time spent by the artist - indeed its beauty lies in the entirety of it and in its immeasurable qualities.
Obviously beauty has got its patternicity but it's not overly predictable.
It walks this fine line between order and chaos as it's a highly complex system that it's evolving over time.
If beauty was just a complicated system, it would be possible to break it down into bits, understand it and put it back together. This is not the case with beauty. A complex system is like a black box that does all this crazy stuff but if you take it apart you can't put it back together again because there are all these intricacies.
Also, very importantly, the sum of the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts and that's where the beauty lies.
Beauty shows you that you aren't what you should be.
Hence people are afraid of beauty as real beauty has a depth that allows people to transcend and get in touch with the divine. This cannot be reduced down to simple and easy metrics.
What makes a painting worth billions and have people line up for hours to see it it's not a single feature of it or the time spent by the artist - indeed its beauty lies in the entirety of it and in its immeasurable qualities.
Obviously beauty has got its patternicity but it's not overly predictable.
It walks this fine line between order and chaos as it's a highly complex system that it's evolving over time.
If beauty was just a complicated system, it would be possible to break it down into bits, understand it and put it back together. This is not the case with beauty. A complex system is like a black box that does all this crazy stuff but if you take it apart you can't put it back together again because there are all these intricacies.
Also, very importantly, the sum of the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts and that's where the beauty lies.