/lit/ - Literature

Past portraiture, age, and confirmation bias.
Look up an image of any smart man alive today. (Do you know of any?) They will look bright and flat rather than depressive/wise.
There is a kind of nerd aesthetic that naturally grows on unkempt people. >>12541755 Like any UNIX gurus or math folks. Albert Einstein for instance.
Newton had bags under his eyes too, but nobody before Newton looked that way.
One of the smartest men in the last fifty years looks like an airport janitor, frankly.