The style is more than the truth, bears proof of the existence
(Gottfried Benn)
Among the many possibilities to look deep and sincere people that there is a tendency to denounce the modern world to stake everything on appearance. Apart from the inevitable television - the contemporary temple where the famous fatuous ritual show although there is nothing really to show - the areas to which they can direct their criticism not leave that many choices: from fashion to holidays Costa Smeralda, from disco to living longer or less good of the city, the powerful cars at gyms for body building. One of the arguments that is used most frequently has a very ostentatious claim to stand as a deep critical analysis: when there are concerns of appearance means that they emphasize the appearance and not substance, and not inside the facade, casing and not the thing. The form, it is argued, is the externality that not only hides the content but even the sole function to replace each substance. At most, such as decoration, may have only a decorative function and all that is decorative leaves the suspicion that justified only as an embellishment of what beautiful is not. In any case the decorations, even when it pursues the goal of a deceptive camouflage, it has the dubious feature to divert attention from what is essential, substantial, fundamental. Who is interested in the pulp and then looking for quality, it is stated with a witty metaphor apparently, does not dwell on the rind. The fisherman who knows his fish as fresh and can afford to be wrapped in a newspaper as a fishmonger in the house must arrange it with the utmost care on the bench for someone to buy it.
! There is also an excursion into the depths of the human psyche: the care of the style would be a way to conceal their weaknesses, fine to wear a mask in order to hide a face rather insignificant and vulgar. Whenever, in short, that you come across who does not suggest itself for what it is trying to beautify themselves but with tricks and gimmicks, a critical spirit must sharpen their ability to penetrate beyond appearances to capture the true essence and authentic interlocutor. Pass the form to arrive at its essence then, the event seems more appropriate to a prudent and discerning spirit that should not be fooled by those who through style - for example, acting within a certain elegance and language - designed to conceal its true nature or the emptiness that characterizes it. Even when you do not have anything to hide, it indicates the care of exteriority in any case a reprehensible attitude. Direct their efforts to give a style connotes a superficial nature as those who care about the superfluous must necessarily neglect the essentials. Who loses time in the beauty farm, or just before the mirror in the morning, we can deduce with some accuracy, it will find it for important things. By analogy who takes hours to write a simple text - such as his girlfriend - because it searches for the most beautiful and appropriate words, it would be in the same way that a renunciation of his to introduce spontaneity into a form artificial. The appearance, therefore, is not the triumph of the artificial on the natural and the manipulation of truth. Everything and every human being has a genuine and sincere and honest people have a duty not to contaminate it with the trappings suggested both conventions is accepted uncritically by the vagaries of which the human mind is sometimes able. What need is there, the question arises in an apparently wise to intervene in the creation, to further improve the already divine act of creation, by definition, perfect in itself? What can the man who delude themselves to beautify the nature if not filled with fancy bells and whistles?
It is obviously difficult to argue against this false reasonableness. First, it must be recognized as the tendency to appear, or rather to give an essential way to propose to, is certainly not a character of contemporary life. In all ages there is a widespread tendency to give an impression that your exposure is also a sham, a representation of fact. And to show themselves in engaging ways to increase your self-confidence, attract the interest and admiration of others is a reward that is used widely in almost all eras and cultures. Only a few decades ago, at least in the rural, were so rare opportunities present themselves in the suit of the party that had to take advantage of the Sunday mass. There have always been very God-fearing man who would have violated without remorse the Sunday obligation without a decent suit. Moreover, males will take advantage of religious services to take a look at the girls, but also to put them on display, even if only at the end of the ceremony in the churchyard. Only the older women who already thought they had nothing to show blacks are wrapped in wide clothes and he was bending down in the dark corners of the church with their rosary. The exceptions were quite old now that they intended to punish only the rancorous public showing in the front rows with their clothes resigned screaming loudly so rickety songs and prayers.
Before the nobles and burghers then not only had no qualms about the affectation to the world what they were or who had become with clothes and belongings. Also used their homes, family coats of arms, busts and portraits of their ancestors to show what was the old family tradition and how high their prestige. They were the external conditions of their lives, their image would say today, the foundation on which to build the glorious stories of family events.
The impulse to occur with certain characters to communicate something more than just a physical presence can be defined as an anthropological constant and our time is no different in this sense much of the past. One might even say that giving a distinctive personal stamp or otherwise to everything you do - the dress, food, the write, to walk, the embrace - is an impulse to live forever in humans. The great commitment in building houses, palaces and castles that speak of their owners, as well as by the simple purchase of a scarf that you think exclusive, it is generated by a need which sinks into the mists of time: to go beyond all that nature provides for a project whose function is very close to that of artistic creation. The impulse, in fact, the style that manifests itself in the daily care of appearances, after all, even that which powers the artistic impulse: it rebels against the limits of reality in which man is forced to live by building an image that somehow redeems them, compensate them. It is a volitional response to the discovery of his own weaknesses which flows into the bold gesture of hiding to give value to what it is and you have. The construction of building works and artistic works that go beyond the limits of human time is, for example, the response to the painful sense of limits in which it is confined to human life. Thus the splendor of the robes and mask his way to redeem his frailty and imperfection of the human body.
is not exactly the vanity that inspires the search for a style, that is, forms of self-representation, but rather the humble awareness of the weakness of human nature. The ordeal of having to be subjected to laws which are not under your control, is what inspires humans to conceive the idea and create a reality that is lord and master. If the creation can never be a prerogative of its existence, at least it is the staging of the style that characterizes it, the way it looks. In the treatment of a style you expresses the longing of man is therefore the perfection that is lacking is the will to respond to a chance finding, although partial and illusory, models according to his wishes. This implied that the size of dell'esplicitazione if you can find the value and importance of communication to care how you look. It does not matter So if no one comes to style perfection, though it may only cover partial aspects very existence and if it is a purely illusory. What matters is to be an expression of a vital response to the perception of an absence: the staging of an appearance did not change the condition of submissive, grants man the opportunity to enjoy even the master.
in appearance there is therefore an implicit dimension that can not be reduced to the form but that can only be expressed in form. In this sense, the effort to appear is delivered to the willingness and ability of others to be educated in what it means and not just what you show. What is in it's relevant to the appearance of code to decipher, communication must be understood. The key, therefore, that appearance takes the form of readable code, is - as in any system of symbols - the its internal consistency. The style in which it occurs can then occur only through the cohesion of the various components: eating at the tip of a fork, for example, hardly fits with a broken-down speech, as well as go to the woods with silk shirts or present in a milonga with beach clothes. It is the intertwining of all, the care to build it that determines the style and makes it relevant in terms of communication. This is why those who want to conceive their own style and interact in a meaningful way with that of others should not give too much importance to taste. The taste is in fact matter very unstable because it is closely related to the cultural, psychological and epoch in which it occurs. The important point is to have one and give expression to be communicable.
is undeniable as to force themselves - their way of dressing, feeding, housing and so on - in attitudes underlying rules, even if you follow voluntarily, may in turn be perceived as a submission to a kind of violence. Moreover, it is also clear that those who slave feel immediately as soon as you put at the service of someone or something, I can not even have the ability and strength to respond to the sense of the limits of their human condition. Those who hate to shape and adapt a technique because it humiliates them the role of servants, may not have the power to conceive and domination, in short, to accept the challenge. They represent, however, as devoid of style can not but also as a form of appearance, an appearance in a form, though uncultivated, wild, chaotic, random, unpredictable but mostly unconscious. Image and the desire to build there is no escape, even moderation and neglect can not be strangers. The same Nudism is an expression of a gesture by a style and intent. And these cases - that of neglect and nudity - not exactly evidence of communicative intent friendly since it is difficult not to suspect that it will produce the desire to punish indiscriminately the next, regardless of its faults.
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