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Beauty in Tragedy
Posted by snow under Theory
There is a certain beauty to tragedy or stife that’s very refreshing. If one delves a bit deeper, the root becomes apparent. It’s not the tragic calamities that are beautiful, but the tenacity and perseverance of life that is beautiful.
Take a look at a mother hen facing off with a dog to protect her chicklets, or a tree desperately trying to grow out of a jagged cliff. There is beauty because there is struggle for life, a cause we can relate to, something that makes us reevaluate the luxuries of our lives
I think people are not meant to live in a ‘utopian’ world. Rather, we were designed to struggle. Though we have all we need in life, we continually seek that fight to add to our lives and so we try to find purpose. If you look at our entertainment, it’s always centered around a ‘just fight’ or a fight for survival.
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I agree that people are not meant to live in an utopian world. Struggling makes our capacity for happiness and pleasure all the greater. It also makes us makes us learn grow and become more mature.
…I don’t relate.
Struggle is the pain in the ass. Hence, socialism, where the lazy can live off of the hard work of the industrious. Now that’s vomitingly beautiful. Like hematochezia.
Chicklets? You mean chewing gum?
Hmmm, I’ve always accounted this odd sense of fulfillment to Nietzsche’s definition of happiness. But then of course, the guy eventually went nuts…