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To take this a little further:

Is beauty external, is it just
a matter of sensation?
                                  
Or is there a component of beauty
that has to do with understanding
what you're looking at, thinking
about the implications of what
you see?
                                           
                                           
The heat distortion from the              
exhaust puffing out of a car's
tail pipe can make some cool
twisted images.

   Many would call it ugly,                    Both types of beauty
   because they know it's                      can be in sync.
   poisonous.                                  Trees both clean
                                               the air and decorate
                    Even worse though:         the landscape.
		    we've been subjected
                    to huge amounts of                An uncontroversial
                    propaganda to the                 beauty.
                    effect that cars are
                    sexy symbols of power
		    and adulthood...
                                                    
		             Rave about the beauty of     
		             car exhaust and you run      
		             into the hype filters.       
		                                          
                                                          
                                                         
   And there's still another   
   kind of beauty, where you        
   appreciate the sad contrast      
   between the way it looks and     
   what it is...                    
                                    
      And then there's still another:      
      You can appreciate the appeal of     
      the ambiguous.  Some things can      
      be awe inspiring, without there      
      being any way to tell if they're     
      good or bad.  There's the sense      
      of something being "beyond good      
      and evil".                           
                                           
                                           
                                           
                                          
                                      
          And once again what I'm talking about here
          is the connections (and barriers) between
          the esthetic and the ethical.

          "Is Art moral?"             MORALFICTION


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