When personages who used to be hot get old and cease to be so...

SotiCoto

You ever look at photos of actresses / actors from past decades when they were young and attractive, and then lament the fact that they're currently old and wrinkly?  Ever wish you could go back in time and retroactively copulate with them or whatever when they were still hot?  Or... just... y'know... go back in time and then realise they were still rather famous and you wouldn't get near them anyway BUT still want to.... Y'know?

Note: this is not an invitation to the lolifreaks to discuss going back far enough in time to diddle people when they were kids. That is just messed up, but simultaneously the sort of messed up that tends to crop up around here.

Khwarizmi

You have about as much chance of having sex with their past selves as you always did, i.e. none, so I don't really see the problem.

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I don't really see why this applies to them more than anyone else.

Aging doesn't seem very pleasant for the person experiencing it and for the people looking at them.

Khwarizmi

That's true.  Aging is rather depressing, and a little scary.

SotiCoto

Because sometimes I suspect that the earlier decades had hotter people than the present one... or at least less artificial.

Also because I remember when I watched the Franco Zeferelli film adaptation of R&J... and... um... yeah.

Counterclock

Beauty fades, but wisdom will always accumulate.

in the end, It's better to build up your wisdom for the decades to come, than to strive to be beautiful for nay but a few years. 

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I am not sure if 48 years or so is a few years.

(saying 48 because i'm kinda sorta okay with the thought of me at age 49 but not 50+ also I think every newborn ever does not look beautiful in any way)

Counterclock

It's not a few years right now, certainly, and for people in past generations, that would account for their whole life,

I'm just saying if the only thing you strive for is beauty, then the first thing you must understand is that what you strive for is a crumbling platform.

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I suppose right now that is the case.

The speed of technological advances makes me hope we'll get some artificial youth elixir soon enough or something though.

SotiCoto

Meh. Wisdom can be extracted from other people. Borrowed, stolen, ripped or otherwise appropriated.  Beauty however, is personal and can never be truly shared.

Counterclock

The very essence of beauty is the in the eye of the beholder, unless you're talking about the public's perception of "beauty" in which case striving to be beautiful for the public is anything But personal, and anything but unshared.

That's why people pay models, because in the public's eyes, they're beautiful.

As for Wisdom coming from other people, and being an "abundant source"

I only wish it was, but that would be wishful thinking on my part.

SotiCoto

Wisdom, as I use the word, is when stupid people accidentally say smart things... or have the right idea for the wrong reasons.
*shrugs*

And beauty is primarily dependent on bodyparts being proportional to the golden ratio.
Also, one's idea of beauty is typically an average taken over a lifetime of all the people of a given type one has looked at... weighted heavier for earlier years and having less influence later on.
Beauty can be calculated... hypothetically.

 

Counterclock

Beauty can be calculated... hypothetically. ~Soticoto.

Honestly, I'm curious to hear your version of beauty now, if you wouldn't mind sharing, but before I put up my next statement, I just wanted you to know that It's not a jab at your standard of beauty, but a jab at the use of the word hypothetical in the statement.

Communism is an effective form of Government... hypothetically.

SotiCoto

Then I'll handle that backwards.

Firstly... the "hypothetically".
What I mean is that one could accurately calculate what precisely an individual finds "beautiful" in a type (e.g. "female") if one recorded the appearance of every single person of that type that individual ever beheld. EVER. In order, no less.
i.e. Technically "possible"... on a monkeys + typewriters = shakespeare's works level of "its never going to happen but it could".

But yeah. Beauty is average.
It tends to be a matter of general agreement that if you take a large number of any given type of person... and superimpose their faces over each other to form an average of them all... that the average will look hotter than most of the component faces that went into it. Counterintuitive... but true.
Differences are accounted for by different people having different averages... i.e. biases in what they have and haven't seen.

Counterclock

oh ok, Sorry about that ^_^, I thought you meant that beauty was objective.

Thank you clarifying that, and I'm sorry if I offended you in any way.

SotiCoto

... Don't be. I'm not easy to offend, and it isn't as though you'd be held responsible for it even if I was offended.