http://royinpink.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] royinpink.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] intertribal 2010-12-09 02:15 pm (UTC)

I think societal condemnation and social/biological contagion are pretty related, either directly or metaphorically. Our most basic instincts for beauty come from health and procreation; for ugliness, disease and waste. But societies pick and choose from that their own idea of the beautiful, etc., and then, in reverse, use ideas of cleanliness, or life, or fruitfulness, or whatever to stamp anything they approve of.

I'm not sure that's the kind of thing you mean, but that's what came to mind. I guess to me the whole thing just screams victim mentality and plea for attention, and it seems made ugly to get attention, to put the condemnation 'in your face' or whatever, and it has zero appeal to me. It's too...vengeful, too angry, too 'trapped in a cage'-like. As it's not 'beautiful', it seems to rely more on conceptual significance, and I don't like the significance I'm getting. I just feel repulsed by the entire mindset of the creator.

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