I know.

You make me better.

Conclusion of the Beautiful.

Following the thesis, the conclusion:

Despite the differences between these great conveyors of the human condition and the hundreds of years that separate them, the message always floats on the same plane of thought. Understanding of the Divine and the revealing of Truth is accessible through beauty. Whether it be falling in love with a beautiful person, identifying qualities of the Divine in objects of beauty, or sitting on a rock and beholding nature in all her glory, the secrets of the Universe are made available. The idea that these different and brilliant minds came to similar conclusions of the benefit of beauty is something of remarkable note. It does not seem to matter what one conceives as the absolute, as long as the idea of One and creation are at the highest points of revelation. The window beauty gives to man is a gift from the Heavens and the impact it has on him and his mental evolution is unparalleled.

BENEFITS OF BEAUTY 

Benefits of Beauty.

I'm writing one of my last college essays...ever. Strange. This is my opening paragraph and thesis. One of the biggest mindtrips I've yet to encounter in college. I love this class. Here's the question:

What is the greatest benefit of beauty to mankind?

The greatest benefit of beauty is the ability for it to attract men to a notion of Truth. The higher idea of objective Truth and the beginning movement of existence is concentrated and made apparent through beauty. The interconnectedness of everything that encompasses our material existence and reality is broken down by our senses and perceptions as we move further from our birth. Birth, like a physical break from the unity of beings and matter, is a false perception of separation. The subjectivity that humans acquire as they absorb experience and opinion further strays them from the point of Truth or for the religious, Divinity. Beauty in the material world, and love for it, demands the attention of those who behold it and forces contemplation of the original movement from One. One is the Creator, God, origin of nature, the ultimate good, or some variant of the beginning point of existence. The beautiful can be more easily understood as a ray from the metaphorical “Sun,” being Truth, origin, or God, that reflects upon objects which then present themselves as beautiful in the light to our human senses.

Guns, Germs and Steel.

Diamond provides a simple argument that the distribution of wealth and power throughout the world is rooted on basic and vital resources that allowed for specialization and time for more in depth thought to occur. He believes that farming, despite the fact that it developed separately in different parts of the world, was most wildly successful for those who could grow the most productive crops that could be stored and mass produced and also provided the best nutrition. Simple enough. He goes on to assert that regions with animals that were 1) friendly to humans 2) of a certain strength 3) lived socially and 4) fed on vegetation became the cornerstone for modern agriculture and allowed much of society to free themselves from food production and concentrate on other things. This eventually led to more sophisticated tools, weapons and thinking which propelled some societies into wealth and power while leaving other struggling to simply feed themselves.