File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1998/baudrillard.9805, message 125


Date: Fri, 22 May 98 16:55:32 EDT
From: Sarah Khan <sfatima-AT-clam.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: Fw: the perfect person


> Ah, work is over for the day and so, the perfect opportunity to respond. 
> Sarah, I like your posts.  Their honesty is refreshing and fun to respond
> to.  (Have you noticed that this group has gotten more active, and stayed
> that way, since your first post?)

Thanks - but no I didn't notice that- that's cool! I did notice
people's email to each other weren't stilted and Soren writes the most
and people spell his name wrong.

> Being asked to design the perfect person is like being given a slab of good
> marble: you can make a lot of beautiful figures if you know how.  I'm sure
> the first thing that occurred to many, on reading your post, was that a
> conception of the "perfect" person is, and should be, entirely subjective
> and relative; perfect for whom, and for what?  

I meant the perfect person like- in a book I read called the book of the
courtier the Castiglione guy made up the perfect courtier, woman and
prince and they were funny and I think the Machiavelli dude made a
perfect prince. I wanted to know what the perfect person people would
construct today would be. 
 
> The perfect man, described already by Nietzsche (you should read him): 

Wait weren't Nietzsche's perfect people the Ubermensch supermen guys.
Didn't they end up becoming Nazis? 

> incessantly seeking, curious, skeptical, probing; he who walks alone along
> the large earth, but filled with the pleasure of existence, imbued with a
> certain glow, an ebullience, an enthusiasm; who is independent, not
> clinging and desperate; one whose solitude could use some protection; and,
> who often gives out, or seems to, more energy than he takes in: a lover
. .
> . of all things that have real LIFE to them; able to love so much the
> better because he doesn't require love; altogether lacking in
> sentimentality, but not in sentiment; who has a certain edge to his living,
> able to create that measure of Risk so important to heightening the senses;
> who will take you on his journey; who rests in your complementary nature:
> who makes you feel, you perfect woman, like the perfect woman you are.  The
> perfect man is one who is able to Live and Love.  
>
> And who would the perfect woman be, then, but she who would respond, and in
> kind, to all of this?

I liked the perfect man you put down here very much- I think the perfect
girl should be just like that. Except she doesn't need a partner to be
perfect and if the perfect man's risk taking means he has to know how to
manage weaponry the perfect girl doesn't have to. 

There's a perfect library in French. It means having literature and ideas
from all of humanity's ideas so far. I like that too but I also know
that can fry your brain.

Thanks Doug.

Bye


   

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