0. Introduction
Looks don’t matter. It’s what’s on the inside that matters. This is probably what your mother told you when you were a kid, but we all know it’s a lie. Pretty people get paid more. They win more elections. Attractive defendants even receive lesser jail time. Mary Shelley Frankenstein exposes this lie and shows us that looks do matter. And it’s even stronger than this because it’s not just our outsides that are more important than our insides. It’s that in some sense our outsides are our insides. That beauty is goodness and the ugly are wicked. In this video you’re going to learn why being ugly makes you a bad person. The forgotten discipline of physiognomy and what all this means for you living in an appearance obsessed world.
1. Context
First some context. So Shelley’s Frankenstein tells the story about a very young and gifted scientist, Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein has figured out a way to create life. And so his scientific hubris leads him to want to become the fi…
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