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Oh you think I should wax? Sorry, I’m actually a follower of the aesthetic philosophy of Byung-Chul Han and reject the concept of smoothness because it allows you to only encounter yourself and not the other, suggesting a desire for a lack of interiority in your partners :/

The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams...

The contemplative immersion in beauty, in which willing retreats and the self withdraws, produces a state in which time, so to speak, is at a stand-still. The absence of willing and interest brings time to a standstill, even renders it still. Stillness is what distinguishes aesthetic intuition from mere sensual perception.

From the practical interest of desire, the interest of art is distinguished by the fact that it lets its object persist freely and on its own account, while desire converts it to its own use by destroying it. On the other hand, the consideration of art differs in an opposite way from theoretical consideration by scientific intelligence,

According to Schmitt, it is ‘a sign of inner conflict to have more than one real enemy’. A stable character does not allow for a ‘doubling of the enemy’. It is necessary to engage with the one real enemy and ‘fight him’, ‘in order to gain one’s own measure, one’s own limit, one’s own shape’. Thus, the enemy is ‘our own shape in the form of a question’.