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Monday, December 14, 2009

Hypothesis for humanity

[ Statutory Warning : This is only my cooky idea, its utter balderdash if you ask me! So don't try your logical reasoning skills here :) ]


Welcome back folks! To those of you new comers and first timers here, this is me. My blog posts are about my thoughts and all that I generally can blab and blog about!

So I was thinking, Charles Darwin is the father of evolution right? Yes am sure he is. But have we ever wondered what evolution really means? For one, it isn't a cake on the plate. It is what is happening around us. It is us in the future. Thanks to some friends and some oh-so-girly movies, I've just come up with a new idea on evolution!

Today everyone wants to look good. Everyone wants to be better than the person next to him or her. Everyone wants fairer looking skin, sharp noses, botox, liposuction and the works. Well, atleast that's what it looks like. Look at a women's magazine and you see a fair maiden, with you wanting everything she's got. If you're a girl that is! But even men aren't any better. All those abs and 6 packs and muscles and the tza tza tzu. They leave you wondering what steroids you need to get now. If only life wasn't this complicated!

Precisely my point. Here's us, wanting to be someone else, in complete denial of our natural goodness and niceness. There's so much in the market today that will transform you into something you're not. The other day I wanted to get a hair cut and I went to this salon. I came out looking nothing like what I went in (I was a "what" and not a "who" when I went in)! Can't say I didn't like the new look. But how long are we going to play this game of "covet thy hero/heroines looks" ?! I have an idea that would make even God want to rethink things! :)

With the rate of change of looks that's going on, lets look at the relation that is cosmetics vs people. More money means buying more cosmetics. More cosmetics be it beauty products or plastic surgeries, mean a change of appearance. A change of appearance so rampant that everyone looks good. Now if everyone looks good, then their offsprings look equally good provided the new look is nothing like the old look and the new look lasts forever (Call me crazy)!

Stepping foot into this chain of thought, imagine more and more people and their children and grandchildren rely on external treatments to enhance their looks. After all, we do believe in survival of the fittest. So the head-turners win. Everyone says to hell with natural beauty. More people join the ocean of good lookers. Sometime in the future, not one person remains who isn't a victim of artificial beauty. My rather naivete thinking is, one day, long past my age, there will be a time when the earth is ruled by daughters of Lakme and Revlon (and Axe to be politically correct :-) ). Girls will be born with rosy pink cheeks, full red lips, perfectly shaped eyebrows and the rest I leave to your imagination! And guys, well, guys will just be guys!

Anyway, my point is, do we really need to stray away from being who we are? Can evolution really turn us into our own supermodels? Even if we don't see that time and age, I am quite convinced that there will come a day where Lakme and Revlon and all those brands are progressing towards extinction because of what they're doing today. It isn't rocket science to think that way!