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3 Financial motivation
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To others, financial motivation predominates. Dan Brown's book "The Da Vinci Code" is a bestseller, but we will not do him the favor of mentioning his non-sense oeuvre in the references - Dan Brown is invited to entertain us by instituting legal proceedings. Others sell a "golden mean gauge" to examine the golden proportion. The address is given in the references (see Levin), as there exists a less expensive student version.
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The "golden mean gauge" commercial announcement checks a moth's wing for presence of the Golden Proportion while the golden section dental set verifies the beauty of teeth.
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Golden "extreme makeovers" exist too. Kiev Professor
Alexander Bliskunov, highly respected in medical circles, proposes a
chirurgical operation for people whose legs are too short with respect to the
golden proportion. His "Orthopedics of the 21st Century" is praised along the
following guidelines: "Increasing your height by way of leg lengthening can
bring your body into the proper proportion as described by the ‘Golden
Section’ which is embodied in the ancient sculptures of Praxiteles and in the
works of Leonardo da Vinci. ‘Golden Section’ was also known to Renaissance
writers as ‘Divine Proportion’."
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Before and after (left) Bliskunov’s golden section operation (middle), praised by a cartoon (right). |
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