{"id":308719,"date":"2021-03-28T18:26:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T22:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=308719"},"modified":"2021-03-28T18:51:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T22:51:23","slug":"love-of-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/28\/love-of-the-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Love of the Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nowadays, to say anything about the body is seen with bad taste. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you flex to much, it is seen as vain and sinful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to our Christian-Judeo morals and ethics in America, the body is seen as bad, evil, and to be untrusted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Yet the irony is that in America, we glorify the body. We glorify swimsuit models, bodybuilders, and superheroes in movies. Can you imagine Batman or Superman being the average ‘skinny fat’ American? Or can you imagine Wonder Woman without her muscles and strong form?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus the strange bias:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the media (TV shows, movies, films) or things that aren’t ‘real life’, we love and glorify the human body. But in everyday affairs, we look at the body with part scorn and hate, yet desire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But what if we returned to more robust Ancient Greek ideals — which glorified the body (the ‘arete’<\/a> notion of Ancient Greece)– in which to reach the apex magnanimous version of being a human, one had to excel both in spirit and soul *AND* their body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

No body, no life.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n