Re: Natasha Vita-More featured on Discovery/TLC Tonight!

From: Mark Plus (markplus@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 24 2001 - 21:22:22 MST


E. Shaun Russell wrote,

>From: "E. Shaun Russell"
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To:
>CC:
>Subject: Natasha Vita-More featured on Discovery/TLC Tonight!
>Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 08:22:53 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>"Science of Beauty" will rerun its feature begining this Saturday. Tonight's
>segment features Natasha and is called "Makers and Fakers." Natasha is one
>of the makers. ;-)
>
 
I watched most of that episode, and the cultural obsession with appearance portrayed therein reminded me of something the late Allan Bloom wrote in The Closing of the American Mind:
 
"As it now stands, [American college] students have powerful images of what a perfect body is and pursue it incessantly.  But deprived of literary guidance, they no longer have any image of a perfect soul, and hence do not long to have one.  They do not even imagine that there is such a thing."
 

Trans-millennially yours,

Mark Plus, Expansionary
"Working to make religion and death obsolescent in the 21st Century."



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