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McJulie

My top example of this is my “urban crime aesthetics” theory, outlined here: bsky.app/profile/mcju...

McJulie

Anyway, this led me to concoct a theory I call "Crime Aesthetics" which is that we have this shared cultural narrative about what "crime" looks like and it just kinda looks like urban decay and poverty, but also to an extent just looks like URBAN

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McJulie

So, these are all thoughts I’ve had for a while, but it suddenly occurred to me that maybe the reason aesthetics are so powerful as a driver of human behavior is that what we think of as the aesthetic sense is the human version of a very deep instinct that operates in all animals.

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McJulie

There’s something in the mind of a bird that makes it want to build a nest that looks a certain kind of way and put it in a certain kind of place. “Instinct,” obviously, but surely the experience in the mind of the bird must be something like “that nest seems good and correct, it looks right”

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McJulie

So, similar to the way you can see the complexities of human speech arising out of the vocalizations of other animals, you can see the complexities of the human aesthetic sense arising out of the “that appears correct” sense that other animals have.

alarmist morisette

Aesthetics are materialized representations of categories. i.e. what a thing is, or is part of, or isn't. Categorization is probably the most important cognitive tool humans have, maybe more so than naming or referencing. We are notoriously resistant to altering our category definitions.

large language marge

my theory about their obsession with aesthetics is that authoritarians are more reliant on stereotype and affinity groups that split into us/them. The daughter who dresses in black instantly loses her individual identity and is transformed into "the kind of person who dresses in black."