I feel like there are countries where the average beauty is much higher than it is in most of the anglosphere and people in those cultures seem to just come to value beauty less.
I also think we should try to figure out why, lets say, penalizing diversity in appearance, is so common, I doubt that it’s entirely a result of changing or differing beauty standards over time and space, I think there’s something adaptive about it, I think it might force people to be less superficial, to be more desperate to prove their worth through their deeds, rather than just luxuriating uselessly in the glow of their material, and that gives rise to families of deeds, and those families win their wars.
people in those cultures seem to just come to value beauty less
Is it “less” in the sense that their standards simply got higher and shifted the beauty curve, or in the sense of diminishing returns? Not sure I could operationalize this, but intuitively it feels like there is a difference between:
this person (beautiful by other country’s standard) seems repulsively ugly to me
this person seems pretty, but so are most people, so I am looking also for some other traits
I feel like there are countries where the average beauty is much higher than it is in most of the anglosphere and people in those cultures seem to just come to value beauty less.
I also think we should try to figure out why, lets say, penalizing diversity in appearance, is so common, I doubt that it’s entirely a result of changing or differing beauty standards over time and space, I think there’s something adaptive about it, I think it might force people to be less superficial, to be more desperate to prove their worth through their deeds, rather than just luxuriating uselessly in the glow of their material, and that gives rise to families of deeds, and those families win their wars.
Is it “less” in the sense that their standards simply got higher and shifted the beauty curve, or in the sense of diminishing returns? Not sure I could operationalize this, but intuitively it feels like there is a difference between:
this person (beautiful by other country’s standard) seems repulsively ugly to me
this person seems pretty, but so are most people, so I am looking also for some other traits