THE BEAUTY AND/or THE human BEASTly action

Image credits: Thanks to Geoff Teehan for the iPhone 4 tools, Fabien Egot for the photo from Monaco. Background from the Euston Flyer Pub in London.

Saturday. I went out with my friends and it was one of the days that the conversation went too far that we couldn't know how to end it.

This time we went to have dinner in a vegetarian restaurant together and then we went to a pub or somewhere we can listen to good music and talk. This time was talking the preference. 

At one point of the night I took off my iPhone from my purse and John, my biologist friend (against anything related to the non-degradable materials) asked me what was from the picture I had for wallpaper in the iPhone. I told him that it was from Monaco. Anne, John's girlfriend and Juridical Assessor of Ambient Law (or something like that) immediately told us that Monaco was one of the enemies of nature and coast legal procedures (or something like that). I wanted to show her the photo but she refused because he knew what kind of photo was. For her the most ugly, insensitive, and outrageous photo that a photographer could take. As you can see, she is really into nature stuff protection. She likes photography and she takes (amateur) nature sceneries and human actions protests. (Now you know why John and Anne meet).

I didn't know what to do or say. For me it was a beautiful photo. Great exposure. Great lights. Perfect moment. Perfectly framed. 

Then, Anne tried to explain why this sort of photos are not as beautiful as we thing they are. She said that nature needs more space than the humanity does. So, when a human tries to enlarge their proprieties and goods means that other human has to reduce their space of living. However, this is not happening, nature has limits. What it happens is the more one person wants the more another want until reaches some point that the ones who have more take advantage from others taking their goods, so the ones who do not have much, they have less. And in that way there's a huge difference between rich and poor people. For her, capitalism is the reason.

At that point, when Anne mentioned capitalism, Paul, the economist of the group, could not remain silent any more. He quickly said that in so many ways capitalism has become one of the most productive solutions for the Twentieth century. Capitalism has been the engine of exporting and importing different goods to one country to another. And he made us reflect about the dinner we had eaten. He said that we couldn't had the chance to eat in that vegetarian restaurant if were not capitalism. Globalization made capitalism just grow. And to sum up, he continued, capitalism had always existed, in one way or another. 

Conversation continued flying at the same way all time referring to that topic and other related to. It was actually really interesting see what were the opinions of my friends and how they were convincing the others to support their theories. Quite entertaining for Henry, the sociologist of the group.

I think this night we all went home thinking about things that world does not take much attention but actually rather important. What do you think about it?

Quite unexpected night, mainly because all started with a photo of Monaco from my iPhone.