Posted on 04/22/2020 7:02:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Nature can get pretty ugly when you come right down to it.
Even angry left wing dykes are a tiny minority of one species.
Define “Beauty”
What does a beautiful Sunset, Symphony, Painting, and Person have in common when they are described as “Beautiful”?
They all warmly and passionately kiss one or more of our senses. :-)
I think beauty, by it’s nature, is not a quality of the observed, but of the observer. It is not the stimulus that is beautiful, it is the sense of pleasure that is perceived.
Because male peacocks are expendable. Peacocks do not help raise the chicks. They are purely sperm donors. Therefore, as long as one survives, the rest are expendable.
But the ones who DO survive, have to have been exceptionally fit in order to make it while dragging that silly tail around, and exceptionally disease-free in order for that tail to be pretty -- survival qualities which will get passed on to their modestly-tailed daughters as well as their sons. And having fit DAUGHTERS will ensure the survival of that species.
There was no evolutionary pressure to become beautiful.
Looking at that peacock, and the bird, reminds me that I have never seen a clash of colors in nature. In fact, the colors on that bird are so perfectly complimentary that you could not do better if you had a color wheel in your hand. This tells me that beauty, at least when it comes to color selection, is an objective reality.
I’m an old male, my awareness of how colors “clash” is... atrophic
...Because male peacocks are expendable
Human males are expendable too... this is why most civilizations send their boy children to war, men are expendable, women are not
“This tells me that beauty, at least when it comes to color selection, is an objective reality.”
Yes, but what is the object?
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Until humans made anorexia beautiful, beauty was a sign of health in choosing a mate. You don’t want a mate with poor fur or feather color, or lesions all over their body. it had a very essential biological role.
I can’t wait until tomorrow because I get better looking every day.
There’s a reason Mr. Blobfish lives 2,000 ft. below the surface of the ocean, he just doesn’t realize it....
Heck, I still don't even now.
Congratulations. LOL
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