In “The Ugly History of Beautiful Things,” Katy Kelleher writes about the extreme and sometimes hideous lengths that people have gone to in order to obtain coveted objects of beauty: ruining their health, wrecking the planet, inflicting suffering on others.
We recklessly and relentlessly chase things we want but do not need. We have a hard time abiding by the concept of enough. But sometimes the human pursuit of joy and pleasure can create destruction. We brush paint on canvases, we play tunes on instruments, we imagine a world that doesn’t exist and read about the fictitious people who live there.
THE UGLY HISTORY OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS: Essays on Desire and Consumption, by Katy KelleherĪctivities that we tend to think of as distinctly human often have nothing to do with immediate survival.
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