Do you ever just sometimes marvel at the fact that the aesthete culture of the likes of Oscar Wilde has found new life in Millennials? Like there is an established subculture of the “deeply shallow” (to quote @dionysae ) who find real meaning in the look, feel, and texture of our worlds. We have this amazing talent for finding uniform beauty in different vibes and we have no shame in organizing our lives around that vibe pursuing the feelings and values said vibe stirs up in us. Like the “live and die for the aesthetic” meme is funny by it’s not a lie; we are the inheritors of a great tradition of building personalities and commentaries out of sublime, carefully cultivated Looks. Art for art’s sake is back in a Big way folks.
#i think its also a form of escapism in a world that most of us have grown up being surrounded with the ugliness of it all#like our generation grew up surrounded by news and cruelty and very very visual war and conflict and combine that with nihilism#it makes us want to focus on the senses#tangible things and colors and superfluous things that hold no meaning but give us meaning#we seek beauty for survival and it works two ways because people think were just shallow and in that way it becomes a form of rebellion#like fuck yes i am shallow but its whats lets me breathe#its gorgeous escapism