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- sweetasbro0
I would say that as a "producer of visual / objects" as someone who has the honour and good luck to have a few ideas and be able to express them, I constantly have to remind myself to replace the word "beautiful" with the word "good".
You may say in classical ages they are the same thing.
But they're not (for me anyway) - beautiful is invisible; the very notion involves the idea of admiration - and admiration is based on relationship involving power relations. For example, power relations are established when I admire someone's work - which in some way suggest that I am less important than that piece of work - which is crap! The "best" design in any means is worth less than the most worthless of men.
We have to shatter the idea of admiration in order to say, "stop saying it's beautiful. Who cares? Find something that is GOOD for you!" Good here of course refers to what is good for me, for my life, for my growth.
To put it bluntly, the aim of all design these days should be to foster the growth - to work to the advantage - of mankind!