We have seen the power that is contained in aesthetics, but, we need to extend beyond dependence on that. It is nice to be able to appreciate pretty things; isn’t it? But, what should we think about the ingredient of, control? Aesthetics seems to have a way of wrestling control from us. Here, I have an image of a male jogger, running along a beach, as he passes by attractive young ladies. Next, I see him turning, to continue his observation of a certain one of them. There are several television presentations of young men that are in this sort of situation; as they trips over some stationary object, while looking back. This concept has much ancient iteration, involving various sorts of reviews of attractive items. The beginning of that ancient collection is this.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
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(Genesis 3:6a)
At that point, Eve and the fruit possessed an intellectual type of drawing force, as for a certain man. This is an attraction that has a power that may be even more potent than sight of the eyes. The drawing force is: the anticipation of tastiness. (What is that quote: The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach?) That came into play, at this time.
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