Today I thought about the word "beauty". What would the world be like if we all had this supernatural gift of understanding each other, similar to the way you begin to understand a character in a movie as the character develops and you see, for instance, how a seemingly common person behaves under an extraordinary circumstance. What if we all were able to "see" each other for those underlying capacities: the eloquence that comes out of a person who on the exterior looks to be completely uneloquent; the poise and control that might come out of someone under a situation of intense pressure; perhaps the lack-of such eloquence or poise that might come out of someone who on the outside is extraordinarily beautiful.
How would a world like that be different from todays world? Would we still have a world that worshipped external beauty and fancy clothes and possessions?
