Re:THE BLACK HEART BOOK script wins BRONZE AWARD!
Logan wrote:
[quote]So beauty equals truth, but it’s also said that beauty is relative since “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and also it’s said that “the truth can be ugly.” That “truth writ large” or, following the initial statement, “beauty”, is “written in the stars” is absolutism. Where am I going with this? Appearances. Truth is objectice, yet the appearance of truth or beauty, as filtered through the eye, or mind’s eye, is subjective. I’m relatively relativist.
Mysteries of the Sea wrote:
Are science fiction writers obligated to create a picture of the future as “beauty” or of the future as a harsh “reality”?
If beauty is truth, truth is reality, and the reality of the future is harsh, then “oh what [perverse?] fearsome symmetry” (my line edited for postal symmetry)
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Everyone must have their own definition of beauty. I don’t believe in objectivity. My degree in Journalism and time as a reporter taught me that.
Sidhecafe’s (my) definition of beauty:
Beauty is anything that takes my breath away. Stops me for a moment in time – stops me paying out my currency – and places me in a state of awe. Hence: terrible beauty, sad beauty, gentle beauty, precise beauty.
Beauty does not negate ugliness. Like all variations of light and dark- you cannot have one without the defining/differentiating presence of the other.
Without opposites adjectives would go the way of adverbs….meaningless overstatements.
As I describe in Emerson’s statement, in order to see beauty in the world, one must believe in beauty….but to believe in beauty is to know and accept that the opposite exists.
The banal, disgusting and disturbing world.
However, I’m a person who believes and accepts that that must exist too. Not that I’m happy about it, or that I will not rail against it- I’m not a fatalist. We are meant to make it better even if some of our species seems bent on the other direction.
And scifi is one of the best way I know to explore and be reminded of this.
Why, in college, I took classes like [i]Body Politic: Images of the Body in Science Fiction and Utopian Literature[/i], [i]Women’s Utopias[/i] & [i]Intro to Science Fiction[/i] in college…as well as [i]Woman, Man & Myth[/i] and [i]Myths of the Feminine[/i]…
Philip K. Dick’s work points out the everyday horrors technology could wreak in our intimate lives, Tanith Lee that we are human animals still trying to learn the world- and always will be.
*breathe* think I’m getting a little to dark here for my own good…enough of that for the moment…
More input from others would be great!!!!