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[Anonymous No.]

Biologists call this “supernormal stimulus”; show a mother bird a giant plastic egg, and she’ll incubate it instead of her own real eggs. Our environment is saturated with this kind of stimuli, this visual drug. Our beauty receptors receive more stimulation than they were evolved to handle; they’re getting more in one day than our ancestors’ did in their lifetime. And the result is that beauty is slowly ruining our lives.
How? The way any drug becomes a problem: by interfering with our relationships with other people. We became dissatisfied with the way ordinary people look because they can’t compare. Two-dimensional images are bad enough, but now advertisers can put a supermodel right in front of you, making eye contact. Software companies offer goddesses who’ll remind you of your appointments. We’ve all heard about men who prefer virtual girlfriends over actual ones, but they’re not the only ones who’ve been affected. The more time any of us spend with gorgeous digital apparitions around, the more our relationships with real human beings are going to suffer.

[Anonymous No.]

>beauty receptors
Never try to science again, you are bad at it.

[Anonymous No.]

citation needed.

[【 五角場 ～ 之 ～ 無名氏 】 No.]

advanced happy new year to you too anon

[Anonymous No.]

Wait, how are supermodels making eye contact supposed to be better than 2D? You lost me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>4019857
Supermodels need not be 3D.

[Anonymous No.]

I know it all too well, but it is far too late for us.

[Anonymous No.]

It's okay.

[Anonymous No.]

Real humans must not have all that much to offer, then.

[Anonymous No.]

Who the hell thinks of this shit?