Thursday, October 18, 2007

"Humans are the great equalisers. A beautiful blond can rarely hope to be seen as both knowing and cogent. We tell the ugly that they have great personalities, while we bemoan the existence of that rich, but aloof brat next door.

Few are the cases where Humans embody perfection in the areas of finance, intelligence, personality, and sexual desirability. Only those entities removed enough from our experience, or sufficiently neutral as to pose no threat to our perceived sexual dominance are conferred this privilege. Heroes and celebrities, for example.

It follows then, that the pinnacle of Human social achievement is to excel in all these categories. This is not an easy task, as not only are there the hurdles of finance, temperament, and genetics, there also lie the innate defences of other individual egos, as shown above. Not a bad thing, as this ensures competition for perceived sexual dominance is kept to a minimum and society proceeds in a civil, albeit fabricated fashion.

Thus, one should seek to foster good relations with other people, whilst maintaining an image of amiability, desirability and expertise. The importance of good relations is that others are then lulled, falsely or otherwise, into perceiving the subject as a neutral sexual competitor. This opens the door for due praise and respect to be showered upon the fortunate subject.

Only when one becomes both respected and welcomed without animosity or jealousy, can he or she then claim to have mastered all aspects and minutiae of Human social dynamics."

-Social psychology 101*

*a.k.a Another Damn Hypothesis when I should be studying instead.