Beauty ain't so beauty really

This is the snake river somewhere in U.S,i guess,but there was a time when we believed it was the great amazon. We refers to me and my friend-let's call him K. K is a psychologist coupled with a philosopher.He used to dabble a lot in body languages and things like that,until he started drawing too many inferences from each and every posture,sometimes they were so contradictory or unrelated that he left it(that is making predictions using body languages) for his own good.

Now to the Amazon story,i was having this picture as wallpaper in my system,when he saw it and asked me,rather seriously with a supercilious smile that accompanies people who know something that others don't -dei do u think that's beautiful?
yes,of course.why what do you think?i asked knowing that this was going to lead to one of his philosophical thinkings.
He said,with the supercilious smile growing in size-u know these places which look so beautiful from long distances,they aren't so beautiful,these rivers will be filled with so much dirt and industrial wastes that that would make your neighborhood sewage bearable and harmless.These rivers are only harming people and animals that depend on it.They support dangerous species of all almost-useless animals and insects which would lay eggs on your eyeballs if you keep it open for a longer time(i have heard of this line before,i think ..Higgins??).They are actually one of the worst places to be in.(And he says all this in spite of never traveling out of Tamil Nadu).I silently accepted whatever he said,there seemed to be a logic in it.

Then i was relating this to some other friend who doesn't wish to be named,he too listened silently and then drew his own conclusion which was-
Hmm...u know Girls too are like that,when you see deep inside them,they are also like those rivers.He refused to elaborate any further and the topic was left out.He suddenly realized it was ludicrously parochial to call a particular section that way,however true it might seem to be and especially when everyone and everything that's beautiful(or not so beautiful)is deceptive like that and this philosophy was buried until i saw this picture again with a "snake river " name under it.
So much for philosophy...