Tuesday, December 1, 2009

On Currency

Yes, I know I have already spoken of this topic...but it's weighing on my mind at the moment and therefore I feel I must talk about it or go crazy. What is this currency I have spoken of in my previous post? It's the value ratio given to one's personal attractiveness, bringing into consideration the purely physical, surface appearance of a person, along with the intellectual appeal to others, and, finally, also takes into account the way an attractive person can make another person feel when in their presence. So to have REAL currency in the world one must be good to look at, great to talk to and be able to make another person feel as though they have at least the same amount of currency. In order to be given the chance to 'show your cards', as it were, one must FIRST be attractive enough physically to be given the opportunity to show what you've got. Any flaw in one's physical appearance is a handicap.
Although it can cut both ways. If one is truly beautiful, there is a tendency for others to assume that the rest of the golden ratio is therefore less...brains not so impressive......social skills wanting ....an implied selfishness and stupidity.....
But there is something to be said for the easier ride one gets if one is beautiful....it is easy to convince others of your value if you can debate philosophy, whilst smiling warmly and telling hilarious jokes AND you look like a god. People forgive the beautiful for being beautiful....but they canot seem to help but ignore the plain....no matter how delightful they really are.

1 comment:

  1. Yeah, this is pretty much the conclusion I arrive at as well. I think perhaps it is because humans can't get away from the primitive idea that the shell of something is a direct mirror for its nature. It's such an integral part of the world we exist in - from warning stripes on dangerous spiders to the latest car from BMW - that it becomes difficult to act different toward other humans.

    That people always want to look "more beautiful" and rarely "more dishevelled" (except where it's a carefully sculpted dishevelled) exhibits a very one way street with regards to physical apearance.

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