The big beauty dichotomy

Much of New York’s attitude about “beauty” is summed up in this excerpt from a recent article by Natasha Singer in The New York Times Magazine:

“No we are witnessing the war on anti-aging. Once a fact of life, aging is emerging as a malady to be fought with the same vigor as, say, cancer.”

To be fought being the operative phrase. Modernists (NYC is full of them), are always fighting to acquire, to win, to defeat, to gain.

This sets up a huge dichotomy with the folks embracing the natural, “aging gracefully” movement, one which advocates working with nature as a means to well-being.

Singer refers to these folks as “people who busy themselves with occupations other than the Sisyphean fight against wrinkles and bulges”.

But where are they? I hear so much about lohas, but I wonder, do any true devotees live in Manhattan?

(Next week I’m heading out to California to learn more about lohas and I look forward to sharing my learnings on the blog.)