Read the title.
1. Beauty is Overrated
Everyone is beautiful these days. Seriously. With the advent of plastic surgery, laser treatments and other dermological and fitness regimes, anyone can get closer to what I would call "niche-selected-crass-commercialized-beauty", a type of beauty set by fashion and style critics. Even without dough, people can resort to traditional methods which are sometimes far superior than their modern counterparts. Culture seems to become assimilated with commercial beauty, with parents become more concerned with their child's physical growth and maintenance. People expect Korea to be one of the nations with the most plastic surgery operations by Switzerland beat them easily - Swiss (214.621 people for every 100,000) vs Koreans (19.654 people for every 100, 000). The truth is this, there are just too many beautiful people on this planet (guys included) to the extent that beauty almost represents normality.
Beauty = Survival of the Fittest/Sexual Selection
became
Beauty = Normal
In fact, because beauty is now a normality, the new beautiful should be
Beauty = Uniqueness
Within the past 10 years, many advocates have been pushing hard to promote inner beauty and subjectivity, the most popular being Campaign For Real Beauty. In reality, they actually help create an environment where individuals with unique features stand out even more than they already are. Similarly, the new ugly has now transformed to averageness. People with the most average facial features are scientifically the most easily forgotten. It's even better to be ugly now than average looking, because even though people might not like you for your looks, you will be memorable to some extent as long as you are not TOO ugly (based on "niche-selected-crass-commercialized-beauty" or "evolved-subjective-individualism". Unfortunately, the old beauty is still an important variable to determine success of copulating and having a baby, not to mention the ability for the children to grow up without being teased about having an ugly mother.
The next time you look in the mirror and you do not like certain features on yourself, pat yourself on the back, for you have passed the uniqueness test!
OMG, I think I just contradicted myself.
2. Ideal Governments
If you haven't read schmae's blog yet, I highly recommend the post on E.P.I.C. UNITY. I really applaud their effort for making changes on the microsystems level, but they really need almost the entire nation to be in it to change the whole government arena.
I just hate how democracy is misused. To be fair, no countries practice democracy, but most utilize subforms of it such as parliamentary democracy, constitutionary democracy and so on. The truth is:
Just because people elect their leaders, it doesn't mean they have 100% faith in everything the leaders do. It just means that they were preferable to the opposition.
Preferable? With just that factor, leaders of yesterday, today and tomorrow are led by the illusion of supremacy. I'm not saying that our leaders should be perfect, I'm just saying that democracy can't work this way, ideally. In fact, voting for one leader out of many isn't solving the problem; it will just naturally cause segregation in the nation.
Nations won't change in a day, or probably not even in the next 50 years. However, we should start being aware of the issues surrounding our nation and be a person who votes for principles and ideas and actual work, not just for individuals and parties.
BAHUMBUG.
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