In my article on why Math Olympians are generally unattractive, my main point was that physical attractiveness opens many doors. Thus, a highly-gifted yet highly-attractive teenage boy or girl has many more opportunities than someone who is highly gifted but also highly deficient in the looks department. Thus, the alpha-looks and alpha-IQ crowd tends to flock into areas that provide much more visibility and potentially promise infinitely higher payoffs than merely being good at mathematics does. However, this is only possible if we live in a world in which beauty is not actively suppressed.

The thought that a society may suppress the human yearning to be exposed to beauty, be it architecture, nature, art, music, or their fellow human beings may sound completely alien to you. However, this has been the modus operandi in the West for well over a century. Governments fund revolting art and music, and many billions have been spent on people who are not able to produce any pleasing art. In architecture, “brutalism” has been the dominant style for over half a century, with PR mouthpieces telling us that if we only got used to this style of architecture, we would eventually find it as edifying as we, in our plebeian, misguided ways perceive neoclassical buildings to be. Of course, I do not need to point out that beautiful men and women have largely disappeared in advertising and media. Even brands that were centered around, perhaps not beauty, but at least hotness have caved. Recently, the infamous restaurant chain Hooters made news for teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. They used to employ skinny women with fake boobs, until HR got the upper hand and thought that it would be more inclusive to let “big boned” ladies and female-presenting men serve their customers.

Despite the concerted efforts of politics and media, there are still vestiges of beauty in society. However, you can easily find real and imaginary places in which there is no beauty at all. On that note, I recently watched Alien: Romulus (2024), the currently most recent movie in the Alien franchise. It is probably one of the most unpleasant recent movies you can watch, and not necessarily because the titular “alien” is hideous. The worst aspect is that there is not a single character in this movie who is above-average looking. Most look decidedly below average. I see more attractive people in the supermarket down the street. If you are wondering where Naughty Dog got the inspiration for the main protagonist of their upcoming game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet from, go watch Alien: Romulus! The main female character could pass as the sister, in terms of looks and attitude, of the main protagonist in that game.

It is quite obvious that the unattractive and highly diverse cast of Alien: Romulus was picked in order to suppress the idea of beauty. You are not supposed to find movies edifying. Instead, our overlords seem to think that you should look at people who look worse than the typical person you see in real life as you go about your day. Now that the leftist grift machine USAID has been dismantled, and many movie studios have lost stupendous amounts of money promoting ugliness, we may perhaps witness the pendulum swinging back, at least a little bit. Nonetheless, in the world our political leaders envision there is not supposed to be a premium on beauty. If this vision was fully realized then highly attractive high-IQ teenagers would have far fewer opportunities. In fact, they may even actively be discriminated against, in the style of Harrison Bergeron.