Frankenstein Quote

While reading the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelly for the very first time I came across this quote and it really resonated with me.

Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so much like truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

The cause of this dialog was a false accusation of murder that led to the death of an innocent woman.

It's just a curious coincidence that I was thinking of this the other day. I am very intrigued by the ability to lie. No species does it quite like humans, and I sometimes wonder why we lie to each other. I obviously know the excuses that are given to justify the lies and I am by no means innocent of this crime, but I can't understand it.

The biggest lie that I can think of that hurts the most people physically and emotionally is the altering of images that are put into a magazine, mainly the woman figure. Why must we falsely enhance how we look? I cannot wrap my mind around this. As a young girl you see these images and try and aspire to look this way, not realizing that the woman are not even real. as a young boy you see these images and think this is what women should look like. Then you get 30 and 40 year old women with plastic surgery scars all over them and 50 year old men with 20 year old girl friends. Why do we need to lie about what we look like? Who started this?

Thankfully the French have decided to put an end to this madness. Check out the article for more information

Also if you have not seen the Dove Evolution video click here

Perfection: Fact or Science Fiction

Perfection is defined as something that is completely free of faults or defects, or as close to flawless as possible. It is also defined as complete or finished... If there is one thing that life has taught me, it is that nothing is ever certain. To be finished or complete suggests there is nothing at all that you can do or change to make "it" any better. To me this just isn't possible.

Okay, I admit some things can be perfect like the mathematically perfect circle or the perfect cheeseburger or even the perfect person for you, but those are all figures of speech or personal opinions. I am talking about scientifically perfect beings or things here.

In my personal opinion which is based on nothing other than what I have learned in high school and by watching discovery channel and animal planet, I think in order for there to be organic perfection the earth and everything on it would need to be static. With all the climate changes (either man made or natural) and the changes of the seasons and even societal changes in human culture I think nothing really stays the same for very long so something that may be perfect right now may be obsolete in a few decades or so. If there were such a thing as perfection, there would be no need for evolution. We need change. It's how we grow, adapt, develop and thrive on this planet. As long as the world keeps turning and changing we will never be able to truly have perfection of anything.

*on a side note just to further prove my point, I watched a documentary about dinosaurs that lived on this planet way back in the day that had "perfectly" adapted to the climate and land that they lived in but when the continents started to shift they no longer could survive and they started to die off and other dino's and small mammals took their place or something like that*

In regards to human perfection, It is all a matter of perspective. As I said before, the term is usually used a figure of speech. Perfection in the eyes of one person can be totally different to someone else. Although the media has a strong hold over what we think the perfect woman should look like, not everyone shares the opinion. Even looking at the views of society over the years, our views and opinions have changed so drastically that to think perfection could truly exist in the eyes of humanity seems silly. Even if we could in theory create something that is perfect, would you even want it? If it is perfect that means it would never change, it would look the same forever and perform the same task forever. I find that very boring...

We've come so far, but we still have a ways to go.

So I guess what I am trying to say is that perfection is an impossibility at least in this universe and even if I could be perfect I would have to decline because it is the quirky things about everyone and everything that makes this world worth living in. Everyone and everything is perfectly imperfect... and that's the way it should be.

Disclaimer

Being that this is my first post ever, I felt it would be appropriate to further describe myself and my idea for this blog. For months now I have been contemplating a change in my career path. Along with my passion for design, I have realized my second passion for writing. Writing has always come easier for me than speaking and I am able to express myself more clearly than if I had verbalized my thoughts. Maybe it's because of my fear of public speaking, or maybe because I can stop and edit my thoughts before making them public. Either way, the fact is that I love to analyze and write about... well, almost anything that interests me. I figure that I could combine my love of interior design/architecture with my ability to describe it in text and possibly find a job as a journalist for a design magazine or write a column in my local newspaper. with that said, this blog (I hope) will be a catalyst for me on my way to finding where I fit in this world of art and technology.