“Cool little imperfections”. Eric Scott Pfeiffer and Alex Paknadel’s Arcadia (see more here: https://goo.gl/G5XAmV) illustrates elegantly how imperfection is an essential element of being human. Contrasted to the smooth (and scary) surfaces of humaniod robots the idea of beauty and perfection becomes more complicated in a highly interesting way where aesthetics ideals involves many factors. That is not to say that the imperfect is the ideal, but it opens for a wider debate about ideas of beauty.
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I think imperfection could be ideal and not only in physical aesthetics. Think about the imperfection of Nietzsche’s or Kierkegaard’s mind, those men where hunted, but their mind was beautiful and the world would have been a poor(er) place without them and their writings.