Will humans eventually abandon their bodies in the future?
After listening to Duran's words, Mark realized that this was not the future, but had already happened. Thirty boys and girls had already been transformed. What would the future be like? It was unimaginable.
But Mark didn't ask any more questions. It was useless to ask. After all, everyone has their own choice about the future.
In order for everyone to accept his choice, he needs to do nothing without doing anything, which is too difficult. Mark asked himself that he could fight, but he couldn't do it like Downey, quietly finishing things and making a choice for mankind.
The gap is too big.
Mark looked at the strong wind outside and the busy dust people in the wind. He was in a trance and felt that the people outside had turned into monsters and the lighthouse had become a monster's lair. He felt that he could not surpass human aesthetics and could not surpass human beings.
stereotype.
"Thinking about the future is really too luxurious."
Dulan thought that Mark should watch "The Song of Shaye". The male and female protagonists in it are very interesting. The female protagonist is a beautiful girl in the eyes of the male protagonist, but a monster in the eyes of others. The male protagonist sees others as monsters, and only
The heroine is a beautiful girl.
What exactly is aesthetics?
What exactly is beauty?
Does it appeal to each eye, or is there a rigid standard of beauty?
When artists create, should they be realistic or abstract? Should they restore the scenery to the greatest extent, or should they create something incredible and difficult to understand?
If you think you are beautiful and others think you are ugly, is it your fault or the fault of others?
Mark's mind is full of questions. If everyone becomes a monster and he is a normal person, then he will be the real ugly monster, right?
If Yan Bing also turned into a monster, he wouldn't be able to bear it.
I'm under a lot of pressure, and when I think about human beings becoming ugly in the future, I feel bad.
Yan Bing saw her lover's confusion and couldn't help but ask the reason.
Mark didn't hide anything and shared his thoughts with Yan Bing.
"I think you are thinking too much." Yan Bing said.
Mark smiled bitterly and said: "Although it is a bit funny, this is not unfounded worry, but has already begun. In the future, many people may become monsters that we cannot understand, just to survive in the Mana ecosystem."
Yan Bing also thought about what would happen if he became a monster. Everything he valued would be shattered, and even love would become incomprehensible.
In the past, her love for Mark was a love of love. If she turned into a monster, would it turn into a love for food? The man who loved her to death turned into delicious food.
Love that lasts until death is so fragile: "What is love? Is it the hormones of our bodies, the endocrine secretions of the brain, the fluctuations of the soul, or the mutual attraction of the essence of life?"
Mark couldn't answer.
When I think about these questions, I suddenly feel that human emotions are very hypocritical.
If Dulan says it, love is the basis of distribution, and benevolence is distribution.
Mohist disciples call Confucians beasts, because Confucians love themselves first, and then love others, so they are beasts. But science has proven that human beings are animals, beasts, so the Mohists are not wrong in calling them wrong, and the Confucians are not wrong either. Everyone is right.
To love yourself first is to distribute to yourself first. To love others next is to distribute to others.
As for what love is, it must be a fusion of very complex factors, and it cannot be answered by one reason. It is related to your education, your own aesthetics, and your own personality. Of course, it is also related to the hormones in your body.
, a variety of reasons ultimately determine the scope and direction of love.
Compared with love, benevolence is easier to understand. Distributing only to oneself is unkind, but distributing to everyone is benevolence.
As for aesthetics, Duran knows that aesthetics is also divided into two parts, one is the artist and the other is the audience. There is an information gap between the artist and the audience. The content displayed by the artist does not mean that the audience can understand it.
Some philosophers believe that artists should have a standard of beauty derived from nature when creating, and artists should show pure beauty.
This kind of beauty is the pure beauty without desire, just like an apple. If it is an apple in nature, the audience may feel hungry after seeing it. Then the artist's work must show the pure beauty of the apple. The audience will only think that it is an apple.
An apple, not a food.
In other words, the artist's ultimate goal is to remove the audience's desires, allowing them to discover pure beauty and have a desire-free dialogue with nature.
That is to say, "the viewer does not desire, and the desire does not observe". Aesthetics has no desire and is simple.
Of course, there are also some other philosophers who think that the above statement is all nonsense. What is the beauty of nature? Nature is imperfect. The goal of artists is to complete the beauty of nature and to complete the "expectation of beauty", which is beyond nature.
What an artist should create is an 'ideal apple', one that can make the audience feel full after just one glance, so they don't have to look at other apples.
Under this kind of aesthetics, there is no need to reflect the beauty of nature, but to show ideal beauty. Nature is not ideal, so artists have to make up for it. Of course, the expectation of this kind of beauty is definitely based on artists, and artists will teach the audience
Aesthetics, the phenomenon of accepting beauty according to the audience's head. Because the direction of compensating for nature is the artist's preconceived concept, he already thinks that his compensation is beyond the beauty of nature, so any objection is a slander to beauty, and it means that the audience does not understand beauty.
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These are two ideas about artistic creation, one is pure natural beauty, and the other is the ultimate ideal beauty.
But even if artists reach the two realms, there is still a problem, and that is the existence of information gap. They may feel beauty in their hearts, but they may not be able to create it. Even if they create it, the audience may not understand it.
The perception in the heart, the creation in hand, and the understanding of the audience, there is information gap in every link. In the end, the art that the audience sees is totally irrelevant to what the artist wants to express.
The artist may want to express a tragedy, but the audience thinks it is a comedy.
Therefore, in the eyes of the audience, each one has different tastes, and there are a thousand Hamlets for each thousand viewers. Because the audience appreciates the work from their own perspective, not from the artist's perspective, the audience is not a roundworm in the artist's stomach.
Whether the artist creates natural beauty that removes human desires or complements the ideal beauty of nature, the audience will have their own understanding.
It's like the artist wrote a pornographic novel, but the audience thought it was a novel. The author was helpless.
Therefore, artists do not need to think about teaching the audience what beauty is, the audience will choose according to their own needs.
Du Lan believes that if Ran Bing becomes a monster, Mark can see the natural beauty of an artist, give up human desires, and just purely appreciate the way nature shapes life. Of course, if he can change his 'expectations of beauty' and change his preconceptions
With this concept, you can accept your monster girlfriend.
Why do many people think squinting looks good and Down syndrome looks good? Because they have formed an "expectation of beauty" in advance, so they will naturally create in this direction when creating, and think that they are complementing nature and their own
Beauty transcends nature.
There are actually big eyes and long eyelashes in nature? Those are the flaws of nature. Turning them all into squinty eyes is the way to complete nature.
Therefore, we need to change the 'expectations of beauty', throw away human desires, and simply appreciate the beauty of nature. Since monsters are born from nature, they must have their own beauty, which is just waiting for humans like Mark to discover it.
So Yan Bing became a monster. It wasn't that she became ugly, but that her beauty changed, but it remained true to its origins. It was still the beauty of nature. If you look at it from the perspective of human desire, Yan Bing is indeed ugly, but it doesn't matter how beautiful she is.
If you want to see it, there is a different kind of beauty.
Mark obviously has never learned this kind of thing. He can't forget that "apples can be eaten" before appreciating apples. He can't forget that "Ran Bing can be kissed, hugged and lifted up" before appreciating Ran Bing.
Therefore, his aesthetics is the aesthetics of human desires and is not divorced from low-level taste.