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I shall now prove to you, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that dark colors, while they do perhaps cause depression because of the inability to see and the tendency towards sleep inherent of depression because of the evolutionary processes which cause our minds to perceive darkness as always being equal to sleep because of the inability to hunt and find food, at least for we diurnal creatures, they do not reflect depression.

First: the visible light spectrum ranges from about 680nm lambda to about 410 nm lambda (I think the figures shift depending on which textbook you're reading), which is pretty big, given that atoms are, on average, about 0.1 nanometers in diameter. 680 nm is the longest wavelength and translates to red (hence infrared, or "below red" wink whereas 410 nm is the shortest wavelength and translates to purple (hence ultraviolet, or "beyond violet" wink . This means that in the time it takes you to look at a red and purple picture, you're receiving significantly more "waves" of purple light than red light. It is also recognized that shorter wavelengths = higher frequency = higher energy.
This is why UV rays will give you cancer.
Backing away from the Super Purple Light Ray of Death (an alternate term for UV radiation and simultaneously an argument against gay pride... xd just kidding), we find that, naturally, people appreciating "cooler" colors- i.e., green, blue, purple- must appreciate higher energy, which allows for deeper thought processes. This is why bouncy people are generally associated with not thinking clearly, though from my experience, there are plenty of brilliant bouncy people- bouncy people like bright colors, because they make you happy because they remind you of daylight.
This is also why blonds are stupid.
Your argument against that leads into my second pro-dark color argument.
Second: the darker in tone a color is, the more "emo" it is, as that is a tendency towards black, and black is the ultimate order, unless you're thinking in terms of pigments, and I am not, because what you see in a black object is not pigmentation, but reflected light, of which there is none because all of the color is absorbed. Because all the color is absorbed, we can take a literature-friendly approach hand in hand with a scientific approach for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to put them together for the same purpose: darker things absorb more color. Isn't that fun? Irony and science. Lovely.

Clearly, we can conclude from all this that people enjoying darker, cooler colors are not necessarily "emo," which is really just an excuse not to be entirely Goth, but calm, contemplative, and better able to reason. The stupid emo people you see don't actually enjoy those colors- they just think they do. They probably go home and watch brightly-colored TV shows. It's an affected mannerism, much like schizophrenia and phobias. The reason you still see smart people who like bright things is because light = life not only in literature, but again in science and nature. Dead things decompose and cease reflecting as much light as they once did; living things do not. The bright provides a balance between the cool, contemplative, unfortunately moderately depressing at times colors and the warm, spontaneous, fortunately highly energizing colors. There are exceptions also to this, though, in that some people (myself included) occasionally are, in fact, energized by dark colors. I haven't seen enough of this to know if only smart people are so energized towards something other than adrenaline-induced hysteria under the influence of a dark environment and only stupid people are really made more energetic merely out of fear or if it is, in fact, as ubiquitous as many other light/color reactions.

I didn't read over that, so I imagine there are multiple flaws. Maybe I'll edit it on a later date.

Edited 12-21-06

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