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Appearances matter. We're not descended from angels. We're descended from primates.
In the last video, we covered the first core belief of the black pill, which was hypergamy, meaning that women date up. If you haven't checked that one out, it will be linked in the description.
Now, we'll move on to what's probably the most essential black pill belief. Looks matter, and they matter more than you think, even if you're already black. This is a massive topic, so it will be divided over two separate videos. And this one will be proving that looks matter using psychology and historical context. And the next one will break down why exactly looks matter using biology.
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In the black pill community, looks are often discussed in regard to dating. But let's zoom out for a second and see how looks shape people's everyday life. Attractive people earn more money on average. Attractive people get lighter sentences in court for the same crimes. 58% of CEOs in the US are over 6' tall, but only 15% of men in the US are over 6' tall. People help attractive strangers more often. Even babies stare longer at attractive faces.
When we talk about looks, it's not only the appearance itself that is judged. People judge even your personality just by your appearance. So when someone is physically attractive, it is subconsciously assumed that they also have other positive qualities like being more intelligent or more trustworthy or maybe more confident or funnier. This is called the halo effect.
>> And what what what what really angers me inside is that you have so many men who don't want to admit that looks matter to women. They don't want to admit that how you look matters. It's about looks. It ain't about no confidence.
The dating app Okay Cupid has also done an experiment where looks and personality are independently rated. And here's the result. Personality and looks are positively correlated. That means the better someone looks, the better their personality is perceived. And vice versa. The worse someone looks, the worse their personality is perceived. So personality is being judged without even knowing the person.
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>> But is all of this a new thing? Well, no. The idea that physical attractiveness is linked to other qualities has been around since the beginning of time. What today is called lookism or the black pill was also prevalent thousands of years ago in ancient Greece. The ancient Greeks had a concept called kalos kagathos which means beautiful and good. It was an ideal that combines physical attractiveness together with character like morality. Even the word kalos itself can mean beautiful and can also mean good. Though we don't have to go back to ancient Greece to see beautiful and good being connected as even in English to tell someone they look beautiful, you can say they look good.
Greek philosophers reinforced this link between physical beauty and personality or character. Plato had described beauty as a form of truth and harmony. In symposium, he even suggested that appreciating physical beauty can lead the mind toward appreciating moral and intellectual beauty. Aristotle argued that outward beauty could be a sign of inner excellence because a well-formed body reflected good nature and balance.
Now, instead of looking at ancient philosophers from Greece, let's take a look at modern day philosophers speaking on this.
>> An appearance is matter. It's the animal part of our nature. We we look at we look we judge people by how they how they how they appear, how they dress, their tone of voice, their body language, etc., etc. It would be in an ideal world, we wouldn't judge people by appearances. We would just judge them by what's inside of them. Yes, I agree with that. But that we're not ideal. We're not descended from angels. We're descended from primates. So, you have to understand that appearances matter.
As Robert Green, who wrote the famous book, The 48 Laws of Power, said, "We are descendants from primates, not angels." So, our choices to choose a partner, for example, are not driven necessarily by morality of who's best for us internally, but they're driven by millions of years of evolutionary pressure.
In the animal kingdom, female choice often revolves around clear visual signs of fitness. A female lion, for example, selects the largest and strongest male with the fullest mane because his size and health increase her offspring's survival odds. A peahen chooses the peacock with the most extravagant feathers. Even when those huge, heavy feathers make survival harder. A male who can thrive despite them proves that he has exceptional genetics. Even a tiny butterfly can spot a tiny asymmetry in the wings of a male butterfly to estimate its mating value. And humans are no different. A female human may prefer a man who is tall, broad shouldered, with a well-defined jaw, low body fat, and facial symmetry. All of those traits are linked consciously or subconsciously to health, strength, and genetic quality.
If you say a female lion prefers a larger male with beautiful mane, and maybe even a pretty face, there is no reaction. But if you say a woman wants a tall man with a jawline and a pretty face, it becomes controversial and silenced and you get strikes on YouTube.
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? No. Well, not completely. There's an ideal and most deviations from that ideal become less beautiful. Sure, a deviation may be beautiful to some people, but there's still a standard.
In the next video, we'll be discussing why this objective standard exists and why it is shaped the way it is. Also, if you want a face rating to see how you measure up to that standard, you can get your own face rating through the link in the description.
So, in this video, we've seen that looks matter. And not just in dating, but in nearly every aspect of life, even how your personality is judged. History, psychology, and biology all point to the same direction. People judge by the eye and not by the hand. But that raises a bigger question. Why is this the case? Why do people judge by looks and not by personality? Why is there such a universal standard of what's attractive and what's not attractive?
In the next video, we'll break down the biology behind it. We'll look at how certain physical features signal health, fertility, and survival potential, and why these signals are hardwired in our brains. Subscribe if you're ready for the next video.
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