You did not choose your face, yet you are held responsible for it. A psychologist examines what looksmaxxing reveals about agency, authenticity, and the self.
“deeper traits take over: competence, warmth, humor, reliability, the capacity to be present with another person” — yes, I hope we still do live in a world that looks beyond appearances. Sociopaths are having a field day with fly-by-night, low accountability, unable-to-test-character-long-term “village” mimicry. Where are the old interconnected extended families who judged character by witnessing words and behavior over decades? We’ve decided to ditch communities that could judge character, and seem to have traded them for communities of appearance and virtue signal .
“deeper traits take over: competence, warmth, humor, reliability, the capacity to be present with another person” — yes, I hope we still do live in a world that looks beyond appearances. Sociopaths are having a field day with fly-by-night, low accountability, unable-to-test-character-long-term “village” mimicry. Where are the old interconnected extended families who judged character by witnessing words and behavior over decades? We’ve decided to ditch communities that could judge character, and seem to have traded them for communities of appearance and virtue signal .
"We’ve decided to ditch communities that could judge character, and seem to have traded them for communities of appearance and virtue signal"
I could not agree more with that statement. Thank you.