Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Aesthetics will save us

 


Aesthetics of deeper connection with nature and understanding of overwhelming presence in the miracle of life gives insight. Inquisitiveness is being alive to life force. The more we know more it matters, and more it doesn’t. It adds to richer valuation of unfolding meanings. As the body evolves to the chaos of life, mind valuates the patterns into connections and it grows to find more to share and integrate into tapestry of life. Aesthetics of life is aesthetics of matter. It makes us appreciate beautiful, the subtle and discern the valuable. It is in every sense an expression of our being. It will guide us. It will save us.

It is aesthetics that make us sense values and ideals that helps life to express itself. It finds expressions in freedom, goals in equality and meanings in liberty. It is these that nurture democratic institutions and liberal ways. It is these that equips us to face reality and prepare us for challenges. Science advances in this pursuit. Technology helps us to extend our senses into further connections into matter. It helps us refine our life, as also our aesthetics. Whatever prevents this nurturing of life is a threat to humanity and life itself. We must protest, react, respond and ridicule with all our being to any assault on aesthetics or valued space that nurtures. We must beware of systems that dehumanizes and blunt our sensibilities. Ugliness is presented as an assault. We are asked to tolerate ugliness so as to lull us into routine and sap our energy.  It will eventually bleed us of our humanity into isolated exploited miserable life. We will be controlled into fancies of crass. We must be therefore vigilant to devious psychopaths scheming for power, money, prestige and ego as they entrap humans into herds through semantics of concern and meaningless word jugglery. They get brazen in desperation.

There is sanctity of life. There is sanctity of space we live in. There is a sanctity in every action and inaction of us. Sanctity has aesthetics that is connected and expressed through matter. As a human being we are part of that expression. If we lose our aesthetic sensibilities, we lose ourself.  We lose all that we cherish.