Has The World Really Become This Vain?

[Eren]

Probably 7.5 down to a 6. If you put the chap in a suit or something then he would look okay'ish.

You should have seen the comments of people on social media regarding his shaved head.

I'd say 8 to a 6, either way, a HUGE downgrade.

 

[JohnsonDDG]

It's always sad to see a good-looking guy losing his looks (or a good part of it).

The bastard can just grow it back though.

 

[CopeForLife]

It always amazes me how ugly even the best looking guys can be without hair. Take Pique, 8+/10 (any rating less than this is coping).

And now bald

Imagine him without that 5 o'clock shade. Absolutely horrible (just my opinion). Luckily for him, he won't ever lose his hair.

he looks goofy on the first pic

he looks better with buzzed NW0 although he needs to grow out it a bit and let his scalp to tan a bit

 

[resu]

He has the facial structure to pull off the bald look, of course social media would be hard on him but in the real world he would be fine.

 

[Eren]

he looks goofy on the first pic

he looks better with buzzed NW0 although he needs to grow out it a bit and let his scalp to tan a bit

Don't know if you're serious or just trolling me. Imo, he looks best with longish or medium hair. To each his own I guess.

 

[Eren]

It's always sad to see a good-looking guy losing his looks (or a good part of it).

Don't worry, he has DHT resilient hair of the Gods, like Shookwun would say.

On a serious note though, this dude barely has openings in his hairline and still has a hairline close to a juvenile one and he is almost 30.

 

[Eren]

He has the facial structure to pull off the bald look, of course social media would be hard on him but in the real world he would be fine.

Yes indeed and I forgot to mention he is 1.92m. So, no worries, he's fine for life.

 

[Marky]

Advertisement has been around for a long time. What's new is social media. Now people are comparing themselves to photoshopped pictures of people in the best part of their lives.
No one puts up facebook statuses of anything negative, it's only exaggerated positive stuff. And most people don't seem to realize it.

This was my thinking too, Fb has become a place where people advertise to each other how wonderful they are, but disguised ad "photo sharing"
Social media has taken the im one up on you to another level

 

[resu]

This was my thinking too, Fb has become a place where people advertise to each other how wonderful they are, but disguised ad "photo sharing"
Social media has taken the im one up on you to another level

Yes Facebook is all about ads including yourself, you have to have it for work, same as Linkedin even though the odds of getting work through either network is slim to none. It's also a dating network, hence the relationship status right on the front page. It's definitely not a diary.

 

[Marky]

Yes Facebook is all about ads including yourself, you have to have it for work, same as Linkedin even though the odds of getting work through either network is slim to none. It's also a dating network, hence the relationship status right on the front page. It's definitely not a diary.

My impression of linkedin was that those who didnt have many friends on Fb cause they're prisoners to the corporate world go to linkedin to show off their work credentials.

 

[JohnsonDDG]

This was my thinking too, Fb has become a place where people advertise to each other how wonderful they are, but disguised ad "photo sharing"
Social media has taken the im one up on you to another level

We're all advertising how wonderful we are and maybe if we keep trying we will one day prove it to ourselves.

When I moved to Vietnam for work I kept taking pictures of the city and the countryside and uploading it to Facebook because deep down, on a subconscious level, I wanted to look like some wild adventurer. To the rest of the world I probably looked like some wank stain westerner taking pictures of mundane things but to me it was everything. I remember checking back up on facebook every three hours to see how many likes my pictures would get. How shallow is that?

Now I'm wondering whether the solution to this vanity trap is either a complete rejection of this competing life in favour of a simple, ascetic life; or whether to just be a lot more stoic but still live the same functional life. Because I know if I continue to consume and produce social media in the way that I have done in the past then it will push my little psychological quirks into full on uncontrollable madness.

 

[Guzam]

We're all advertising how wonderful we are and maybe if we keep trying we will one day prove it to ourselves.

When I moved to Vietnam for work I kept taking pictures of the city and the countryside and uploading it to Facebook because deep down, on a subconscious level, I wanted to look like some wild adventurer. To the rest of the world I probably looked like some wank stain westerner taking pictures of mundane things but to me it was everything. I remember checking back up on facebook every three hours to see how many likes my pictures would get. How shallow is that?

Now I'm wondering whether the solution to this vanity trap is either a complete rejection of this competing life in favour of a simple, ascetic life; or whether to just be a lot more stoic but still live the same functional life. Because I know if I continue to consume and produce social media in the way that I have done in the past then it will push my little psychological quirks into full on uncontrollable madness.

Ascetic life is not a solution; it is the ultimate alienation and a declaration of defeat. The key is to understand the underlying mechanisms of the new media and the new society, thus seeing them not as a appendix of our self (as a consequence, they influence us. The like-dopamine phenomenon is well known and extremely scary), but rather as an item to be used to market ourselves.

In other words, the key is to keep mental distance from the new media because they easily consume the ego, especially for those who are 'not enough' (baldies and uglies), and see them as an item, an instrument which has a prominent importance in our lives. Once achieved the mental distance, one completely understands the mechanisms that link looks with social/work success in the new society: the ultimate redpill. Our objective is to win baldness to start using the new media in our favor again, but without the absorption such media is capable of.

 

[JohnsonDDG]

Ascetic life is not a solution; it is the ultimate alienation and a declaration of defeat. The key is to understand the underlying mechanisms of the new media and the new society, thus seeing them not as a appendix of our self (as a consequence, they influence us. The like-dopamine phenomenon is well known and extremely scary), but rather as an item to be used to market ourselves.

In other words, the key is to keep mental distance from the new media because they easily consume the ego, especially for those who are 'not enough' (baldies and uglies), and see them as an item, an instrument which has a prominent importance in our lives. Once achieved the mental distance, one completely understands the mechanisms that link looks with social/work success in the new society: the ultimate redpill. Our objective is to win baldness to start using the new media in our favor again, but without the absorption such media is capable of.

But then we'll just be working so hard to take part in this shallow sh*t fare. Because if we attain the ideal aesthetic, perhaps through a sheer miracle become some God forsaken Chad Thundercock, then aren't we just perpetuating this hollow dream of modern living?

 

[Rudiger]

We're all advertising how wonderful we are and maybe if we keep trying we will one day prove it to ourselves.

When I moved to Vietnam for work I kept taking pictures of the city and the countryside and uploading it to Facebook because deep down, on a subconscious level, I wanted to look like some wild adventurer. To the rest of the world I probably looked like some wank stain westerner taking pictures of mundane things but to me it was everything. I remember checking back up on facebook every three hours to see how many likes my pictures would get. How shallow is that?

Now I'm wondering whether the solution to this vanity trap is either a complete rejection of this competing life in favour of a simple, ascetic life; or whether to just be a lot more stoic but still live the same functional life. Because I know if I continue to consume and produce social media in the way that I have done in the past then it will push my little psychological quirks into full on uncontrollable madness.

This is incredible.

 

[Marky]

We're all advertising how wonderful we are and maybe if we keep trying we will one day prove it to ourselves.

When I moved to Vietnam for work I kept taking pictures of the city and the countryside and uploading it to Facebook because deep down, on a subconscious level, I wanted to look like some wild adventurer. To the rest of the world I probably looked like some wank stain westerner taking pictures of mundane things but to me it was everything. I remember checking back up on facebook every three hours to see how many likes my pictures would get. How shallow is that?

Now I'm wondering whether the solution to this vanity trap is either a complete rejection of this competing life in favour of a simple, ascetic life; or whether to just be a lot more stoic but still live the same functional life. Because I know if I continue to consume and produce social media in the way that I have done in the past then it will push my little psychological quirks into full on uncontrollable madness.

I've been there too, we all have the propensity to be accepted by our peers - via likes on fb in this case, I don't think it's shallow it's just part of our broken human nature, and in my opinion such things as God or our religious/spiritual beliefs act as the equalizer to save us from this mental stupidy (social media being one). Need a lot of maturity and life experience to come to terms with it - we are all just pilgrims passing through a temporary life.

Myself, I pulled out of the competition game on fb awhile back. I sometimes post, but keeping in mind it's not to brag and join the social media race, and also remembering there are a lot of hurting people out there that don't appreciate feeling inadequate from something posted.

This way I'm not susceptible to the manipulative BS that goes on there, and still enjoy staying in touch with friends, and info from news reels from some of the groups I've joined.

 

[Guzam]

But then we'll just be working so hard to take part in this shallow sh*t fare. Because if we attain the ideal aesthetic, perhaps through a sheer miracle become some God forsaken Chad Thundercock, then aren't we just perpetuating this hollow dream of modern living?

The key is to know the sh*t fare is a sh*t fare nothing more nor less, and use it in our favor. Before, we have to win baldness: knowing that baldness truly keeps one down in the new society is harrowing and we all have depressive outbursts at least one time every two weeks (or less).

This path though, leads to an higher degree of consciousness: if ANY of us wins baldness, he will live the new-normal social media life fully aware about its inner workings; he has seen it from the bottom. He's no more a prisoner of likes, rather than a super-man who uses them for his own success, keeping the mental distance.

This Hegelian/Nietzschean path can't be achieved without winning the major flaw of us: baldness.

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

I post on FB to discuss things. I might post an interesting article, or a movie review, and discuss my thoughts on it. I do not engage in "virtue signalling", for example by bragging that I'm attending the women's march, that #imwithher, that I support animal rights, etc. The other thing I don't do is post articles I find interesting without commenting on them, people don't need the spam and are capable of finding articles by themselves. They might be interested in what a friend has to say though.

I sometimes post travel pictures but it's a convenient storage space.

I admit I still care about likes. I get less than I used to, which I think is because some people have gotten tired of my movie reviews and comments on findings in nutrition.

However I have had people thank me in real life for actually being interesting. I think they're tired of seeing barggers on their wall, and they're happy somebody is posting interesting stuff.

I have 548 FB friends and I wonder how many of the have blocked me. Sometimes people respond to my posts, or like them, and I'm just shocked that they have not blocked me.

 

[blackg]

Isn't the fact that we also perceive "the new media" as a competition a worry, in itself.

It speaks volumes to the insecurity inherent in all of us.
Insecurity only produces more ego, real or counterfeit, as far as I'm concerned.

The greatest downfall of mankind isn't so much his true ego (greed is good, and essential to human development), it's his... or her insecurity.

Hence the perception of competition, whichever direction we look, including social media.

 

[Vesemir]

I don't use social media anymore. At first I thought it was funny how much bullshit is posted online, I did it myself. But the past 2 years it got so bad I decided to never visit Facebook/Twitter/Instagram etc... again. I'm still using a messenger of course, to chat 1 on 1 with my familiy and close friends. But I'm done with all those, sometimes fake, stories everywhere I scroll. Seeing models everywhere on beautiful beaches with even more beautiful friends. News reports of which I can't decide if they are fake or not. It doesn't matter if it's CNN or a small news station.
Everybody has an opinion online, even when they don't have knowledge about the subject.

It was a relieve to cut those things of, not dealing with that crap anymore. I don't feel like I have to be someone else anymore. It's the best feeling in the world.

 

[EvilLocks]

It always amazes me how ugly even the best looking guys can be without hair. Take Pique, 8+/10 (any rating less than this is coping).

And now bald

Imagine him without that 5 o'clock shade. Absolutely horrible (just my opinion). Luckily for him, he won't ever lose his hair.

He's not even close to being ugly "bald" (read: "shaved"). I've always had a thing for shaved guys with that nice 5 o'clock shadow though, I think it looks badass. But yes, wouldn't say the same had he been a slick NW6. The frame is truly everything! In this guy's case better with hair, not bad shaved.

I remember I thought Viktor Krum (from Harry Potter) was incredibly hot: