hello!!! thank you so much for linking my website on your links page!! i'm just now responding to messages on my guestbook after months, but i really enjoyed clicking through your webpage - and especially reading your writing. your thoughts on internet aesthetics were a good read. humans have a natural tendency to categorize things. i read something a long time ago about the development of categorization with language (our brains work by looking at a thing and comparing it to another thing and going. that is not that thing. looking at a cat and a redwood and going: "those are definitely two different things". but we can categorize them both as living things, or as animal and plant. or as mammal and tree. so having terms for specific aesthetics is very human!! personally though, i think aesthetics are nice for articulating personal taste - but i get kinda irritated when things get broken down into just the image and the history and meaning is forgotten (the history of punk, for example). you go into this briefly in your "we live in a society" section. i agree that not everything has to become your identity 
i could probably keep writing about this forever hahaha, but i'll stop here. thanks again for visiting my site!!!