Topic > What is beauty? - 717

The common cliché says "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Is there any real meaning to this? The expression simply means that beauty has no set meaning, definition, or even value. It is a collectively indecisive notion, since its definition lies exclusively in observation. It also implies that each individual can interpret the idea of ​​beauty (of people, objects, thoughts, etc.) according to their own partial, genetic, emotional, cultural, social and spiritual needs. That said, most people feel that they "intuitively" know and "understand" what beauty means in their mind's eye. That is, when it comes to judging people's physical appearance, for example, they can agree on a consensus about what it means to be beautiful. Furthermore, this is precisely where the politically oriented, money-driven media plays its most hypocritical card, constantly bombarding us with doctored images and brainwashing us into accepting their artificially enhanced symmetrical lines of human design as the universally preferred ones. The world of high fashion, for example...