Ah finally a plinky post that I can get a bit of mental traction on. Uni work is reaching that crunch time it always gets to just before a break. As such I have a 3000 word essay that needs completing this weekend. Therefore of course I have some time to be wasting my brain on intellectual plinky debates.
Would you rather be super intelligent or extremely good looking?
Gee Plinky you're going to make it difficult to not be stereotypical or clique today. In an all of one and none of the other context I'm happy enough to side with super intelligent.
However this answer I am going to say is the dominant response as acceptable to our society. Humanity is not allowed to openly admit to being superficial. Nobody is going to admit that they wouldn't want to sacrifice their great body for the knowledge to help or hinder the world.
In fact of the 8 previous answers I have checked out only one person admitted to preferring to take looks. They figured while smart people would have the ability to know the answers to life, the universe and everything the good looking people simply wouldn't think to wonder about it.
So I think this a topic where a large percentage of people would answer very hypocritically. How can you say you would rather be intelligent than pretty when you decided against doing anything more demanding than arts at uni and spend $30 a week on your fingernails?
At this point I am going to reference the picture and say I am reckoning this a statistics calculation though I couldn't say for sure it not being my own picture... But if that isn't suggesting I already fall towards the intelligent rather than good looking side I don't know.
In another way to answer the question. If I'm going to do it on an 'out of ten' scale ie if my intelligence is a 9/10 my looks are a 1/10 etc. I'm probably going to go with intelligence of 8/10 and looks 2/10.
I have no great aspirations to be Einstein or the person who works out the specifics of putting an artificial atmosphere on the moon - not that I wouldn't want to reap the benefits and live on the moon =P. People who are that smart are weird - hell I'm not even that smart and I'm weird so I figure they are probably going to worse.
Also a small part of me would like to be able to face myself in the mirror every morning. Plus it gives me a head start over all the people with perfect intelligence who have perfect ugliness as well. Don't be denying it - all those 'extremely good looking' would be judging on looks and somebody needs to be able to tell them what's going on in the world.
Honestly looks are fairly low on my list of things to do. I don't like judging books by their covers - I generally at least wait until they've opened their mouths. But for extended periods of time there is little I can stand more than dumb people - I'd hate to sacrifice my natural ability to think about things to be just another pretty face.
This is when I think about the book I am reading at the moment 'Brave New World'. Not for the first time but certainly for the first time in a long time. There is a superficial society. The illusion of high intelligence which covers superficiality. Everybody knows lots of stuff but nobody has the ability to think, to question. Nobody is intelligent.
Interestingly the main character is intelligent. He knows something about this world isn't right - something isn't going deep enough. Coincidentally he is ugly - remarkably so for his Alpha-Plus caste status. Too short, too scrawny. I'd rather be him than any of the other beautiful people in that dystopia.
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