The claim that for there to be winners, there need to be losers may technically be true — but this does not apply to the more abstract realm of “life” or the world itself. Further, the argument that you need ugliness for there to be beauty is “not even wrong.”
I do not need nor do I have some ugly man or woman in my head to understand that, say, a Cary Grant or Brigitte Bardot is attractive. Nor do I need an ugly person in a room with dozens of attractive ones as contrast. Do I need, say, a horrible Bauhaus building next to the Sistine Chapel to understand what a great piece of work the latter is?
Regarding the argument that for there there to be winners in life, there need to be losers: while there will never be equality in this world, we certainly can imagine a world where everyone is attractive. There are a variety of attractrive men and women who differ phyiscally but are still in the realm of being seen as attractive.
After all, real poverty hardly exists anymore in the West — at least
for now.
Someone who claims to be poor in the West is still
materially richer than someone in a third world country, and
also benefits from better infrastructure and a more capable culture.
This, again, until the West collapses. (A just punishment for its
cultural vulgarity, sexual decadence, “auto racism” and all the other
filth we drown in.)
This shows that almost everyone has reached a higher level of wealth in the West, which could at least be imagined even in terms of beauty: only masterpieces, only attractive people and so on existing. Not hard to imagine at all. It is just that reality is that which, once you stop believing in it, does not go away. And in this fallen world, some are ugly hunchbacks — like myself — and others are attractive Hollywood stars.
Therefore, Nicholas Wade is wrong. He claimed in one of his books that beauty requires ugliness to exist, otherwise we wouldn’t recognize it, which is hogwash of the worst sort.
I repeat Don Colacho:
So that one does not live depressed among so many foolish opinions, it behooves one to remember at every moment that things obviously are what they are, no matter what the world’s opinion is.
The majority of men have no right to give their opinion, but only to listen.
Modern individualism is nothing but claiming as one’s own the opinions everyone shares.
We should ask the majority of people not to be sincere, but mute.