And now, My Philosophical Discussion with the General Fascination of the Color Blue.
I found that among my friends, a good portion of them claim that blue is their favorite color. Another good portion of the ones who don't necessarily "like" blue claim that a blue based color is their favorite, so either green or purple. So indirectly, they like blue because without blue, green and purple, as color pigments that is, would not exist. (We'll leave out the light aspect of this...)
I suppose you could consider blue a "natural" color. It is one of the primary colors for both light and pigment (technically, it's cyan, but it's still blue to me). It is the color of the sky. It is the accepted color of the unpolluted sea. Many people have blue eyes. Veins are blue. As far as society goes, blue is probably the most worn color for clothing because a good number of jeans are, indeed, blue. A baby boy is sometimes dressed in blue. Wal Marts (except mine) are blue. Blue is everywhere.
Blue, as a light, has a short wavelength, indigo and violet being the only two colors having shorter. This means it has a high frequency. This means high engergy. People like high energy, right?
But yet, blue is labeled a "cool color". Cool implies low energy, relaxed. So which is it?
What about the chemistry of blue? (For those that don't know, we are able to see colors because of special bonds in the rods of the eyes. They rotate accordingly at right angles to see color.) Is it the nice equilibrium of the amount of rotated bonds in these special molecules that makes appealing? Is it that just enough are rotated taht it makes blue easy and pleasant to see?
Conclusion: Blue in itself is ambiguous, and people are therefore confused OR I really need a life.
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