psyche

I’m sure everyone knows the deal by now, so please consider this a footnote to what you already believe. Physical attractiveness is an indicator of health and in females, fertility and in males, the ability to protect his mate and offspring. This is inextricably embedded into our genetic coding; indeed it is one of the main reasons that we evolved constructively - the attractive, the superior genetic specimens, survived. How blunt! What hope for the ugly? None, apparently. From birth we place extreme emphasis on the physical appearance of our peers and make judgements about people mainly based on what they look like. If you had the choice between hiring a very attractive secretary and a less attractive one, you would probably choose the attractive one unless they were severely less competent than their competitor.

I wonder; should we attempt to bypass this biological discrimination? Is it right to - does the system balance itself out? Can it be bypassed?

I don’t know. I guess unattractive people can only rely on other people doing this, though, or perhaps they must lead a solitary life and simply contribute to humanity in ways other than enhancing the genepool and hope that when news of their deeds is handed down to posterity, the future will not judge them so harshly as we did!

It’s lucky I’m not a people person or I’d be fairly depressed by my disgusting nature.

In other news, by some miraculous chance I managed to get an A* in the German mock. It was probably in some way connected to the fact that there was no mock oral. When we have the oral, I will … probably not do very well. But I’ll try.

Pax