@sickburnbro @WTFPurpleAlpaca An excellent and concise summary. Great clip.

Humans relate to faces. We evolved that way. It's why the aggressively-online tend towards nihilism, crushing ennui or cruelty. What we create--cars, houses, buildings, art--have faces too, and when those faces are made drab, or bland, or remorseless, or cold and unfeeling, we respond in kind.

It's difficult to quantify, and it's hopelessly unmeasurable in any hard-scientific way, but it's the sort of thing *everybody* notices.

It takes a fairly high IQ to even be able to talk oneself into accepting the ugliness as something other than ugliness, and quite a few smart people have managed to do so; but for the honest smart fraction, and the great average middle, it's just a corrosive environment.