Robert
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The mess exists.
As Jordan Peterson would say, make your bed.
When was the last time you made your bed, Robert Evans?
I built a bed once.
Okay.
That wasn't the question.
It wasn't a good bed.
So once you have these categories, once you've come up with, you've decided these are the categories all people fit into, you have to have an explanation for why these categories exist in the first place, right?
It kind of begs the question.
So the incels start posting pictures of themselves and of each other, right?
And they start posting pictures of people that they think are chads and alphas to try and suss out the rules behind who is attractive enough to find love.
And they come across...
a real term in mathematics and in art called the golden ratio.
I'm sure most people know what the golden ratio is, right?
It's a term that explains this particular set of proportions we see over and over again in natural objects like snail shells, but also people seem to find this basic visual harmony that is created by the golden ratio pleasant.
And so you see evidence of the golden ratio all across human art, in great architecture, in fine art like the Mona Lisa,
The golden ratio is all over the fucking place.
It's a real observed phenomenon, right?
And all it means is that for whatever reason, we find certain kind of proportions more attractive and pleasing to our eyes, right?
What incels take from this is that