[MD] Platt's Proverbs On Beauty

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Intellect pollutes the world's beauty.

[Arlo]
Well it wouldn't be a New Year without me disagreeing with Platt 
eventually... I'd say that intellectual patterns can be just as 
"beautiful" as any thing else. Why would The Buddha not rest as 
comfortably in mathematical equations as it does in a symphony or 
painting? "Intellect" does not pollute beauty, it can either 
"channel" it (act "artistically") or turn its back on it (act 
"non-artistically"), same as any of the other "levels", or aspects of 
human activity.