Beauty And Shallowness
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2025 12:13 am
There are many people who identify beauty with shallowness. While some people who are into beauty are in fact shallow, there are many others who are not shallow at all.
Emily Dickinson wrote, "I died for beauty." She was not shallow. John Keats wrote, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." He was not shallow. The idea that beauty is a manifestation of the divine created the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo was most certainly not shallow.
There is nothing shallow about dancing ballet. There is nothing shallow about playing a symphony. There is nothing shallow about making a classical painting. All these take talent and work.
Naomi Wolf, in "The Beauty Myth," was blaming beauty for the abuse heaped by bad parents and stupid teenagers on unattractive teenage girls. She was mistaking the abuses of a value for the value itself. Anything with appeal to people can be used for wrong. That does not make it wrong in itself. We see this with beauty; we also see it with such things as intelligence, money, family, society and moral values such as altruism and patriotism. None of these things are wrong in themselves. They however stand to be used for wrong. And the solution is correcting the wrongs done in the name of the value while preserving the value itself.
This foolishness has gone on to such an extent that many people think that a woman who is physically attractive cannot have other good qualities such as strength or intelligence. A sizable influx of women from Eastern Europe stands to fix this problem. These women are at least as smart and as strong as any American feminist, and they are beautiful and cultured. In their countries they are taken for granted and treated poorly. In America, they stand to show the men what they have been missing while having a chance at a better life.
To the people who think that beauty is incompatible with spirituality, the correct response is that excellence is a spiritual value. Spiritual people - both men and women - strive for excellence all the time. This is especially the case in Japan and China. Even if spirituality does not discriminate in favor of beauty, it most certainly does not discriminate against it, and there is nothing to keep a woman from being both beautiful and spiritual. We see this especially with the women that I have loved.
Whereas the women who are against beauty cannot see past their greed, envy and hatred. This makes them both shallow and spiritually poor. The female gender deserves better representatives than such women. And spirituality, strength and intelligence deserve better spokespeople than them.
Emily Dickinson wrote, "I died for beauty." She was not shallow. John Keats wrote, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." He was not shallow. The idea that beauty is a manifestation of the divine created the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo was most certainly not shallow.
There is nothing shallow about dancing ballet. There is nothing shallow about playing a symphony. There is nothing shallow about making a classical painting. All these take talent and work.
Naomi Wolf, in "The Beauty Myth," was blaming beauty for the abuse heaped by bad parents and stupid teenagers on unattractive teenage girls. She was mistaking the abuses of a value for the value itself. Anything with appeal to people can be used for wrong. That does not make it wrong in itself. We see this with beauty; we also see it with such things as intelligence, money, family, society and moral values such as altruism and patriotism. None of these things are wrong in themselves. They however stand to be used for wrong. And the solution is correcting the wrongs done in the name of the value while preserving the value itself.
This foolishness has gone on to such an extent that many people think that a woman who is physically attractive cannot have other good qualities such as strength or intelligence. A sizable influx of women from Eastern Europe stands to fix this problem. These women are at least as smart and as strong as any American feminist, and they are beautiful and cultured. In their countries they are taken for granted and treated poorly. In America, they stand to show the men what they have been missing while having a chance at a better life.
To the people who think that beauty is incompatible with spirituality, the correct response is that excellence is a spiritual value. Spiritual people - both men and women - strive for excellence all the time. This is especially the case in Japan and China. Even if spirituality does not discriminate in favor of beauty, it most certainly does not discriminate against it, and there is nothing to keep a woman from being both beautiful and spiritual. We see this especially with the women that I have loved.
Whereas the women who are against beauty cannot see past their greed, envy and hatred. This makes them both shallow and spiritually poor. The female gender deserves better representatives than such women. And spirituality, strength and intelligence deserve better spokespeople than them.