@illafayette: This has nothing to do with discouraging self-improvement. Take care of your health. Build your confidence. Work on your appearance if that makes you happy. But when did improving yourself become an excuse to deliberately degrade other people? People are becoming so obsessed with ascending physically that they’ve completely neglected their intellect, character, and ability to see people as human beings. Congratulations, you’ve identified someone’s eye area as “low tier.” Now imagine applying that level of dedication to developing a single interesting thought.

GS :

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face--there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. - Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Heinrich Goldberg :

Nice argument but

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miranda🧣 :