by Aaron » Tue 02 Oct 2007, 13:30:15
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') guess it depends if you want to date her, or make a wallet out of her.
Now that's just plain-ole funny as hell.
Some might say it's all a wash... this beauty issue.
I think that's what Penn is eluding to.
And I, for one, think he's right.
Same thing as being rich or powerful in some way. It provides a sensory experience that has good & bad parts, just like not being wealthy or powerful did beforehand.
I know one thing for certain... my own
conception of wealth is far better than the actual thing.
Everything we think we "know", automatically becomes blinders for some other perception. By narrowing our vision of what something means, we exclude the possibility of seeing things differently.
I am a musician for example. I have played with concert symphonies. I assure you that my experience listening to the symphony is very, very different than yours. (Unless, of course....)
No matter how good-lookin you think you are.
Or rich... or whatever.
Till you play with the symphony yourself... well... you're just a noob in my eyes.
And on and on... The same way I'm a noob in so many other things. The difference is... I accept my noobishness and even proclaim it when appropriate. I celebrate it in fact. Because it represents all the excellent experiences yet to come.
What I don't do is delude myself by thinking that my
circumstances in any meaningful way define me.
I define me.
The matrix cannot tell you, who you are.
The beautiful are simply deprived of the perceptions available to the less beautiful. And vise-versa.
It is their ignorance of this simple fact which ties down their minds & prevents growing beyond their own self-imposed limitations.
To an earthworm... dirt is gold.
The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt, but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise... economics is a form of brain damage.
Hazel Henderson