Sara Walker: preference

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…Wow. What do you think beauty is? We seem to… Underlying this idea of playing with aesthetics is we find certain things beautiful. What is it that humans find beautiful? And why do we need to find things beautiful? Yeah, it’s interesting. I mean, I am attracted to style and aesthetics because I think they’re beautiful, but it’s much more because I think it’s fun to play with. And so, I will get to the beauty thing, but I guess I want to just explain a little bit about my motivation in this space, because it’s really an intellectual thing for me. And Stewart Brand has this great infographic about the layers of human society. And I think it starts with the natural sciences and physics at the bottom, and it goes through all these layers and it’s economics. And then fashion is at the top, is the fastest moving part of human culture. And I think I really like that because it’s so dynamic and so short and it’s temporal longevity. Contrasted with studying the laws of physics, which are the deep structure reality that I feel like bridging those scales tells me much more about the structure of the world that I live in. That said, there’s certain kinds of fashions. A dude in a black suit with a black tie seems to be less dynamic. It seems to persist through time.…

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