Doan Courant

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Sunday, April 15, 2007

What to wear.

There are two kinds to people in the world, those who care what they look like and those who don't. Of those kinds of people who care what they look like, there are two kinds, those who look like they care what they look like and those who look like they don't care what they look like. There are also two kinds of the kind of people who don't care what they look like, those who look like they don't care what they look like, and those who don't look like they don't care what they look like. For the sake of categorization, I am going to call the kind of people who care what they look like M, and those who don't care what they look like N. Those who look like they care what they look like I will call M-1, and those who look like they don't care what they look like I will call M-2. Thus, those who look like they don't care what they look like I will call N-1, and those who don't look like they don't care what they look like I will call N-2.
The question naturally arises, what is the difference between M-2 and N-1, since M-2's look like they don't care what they look like, and N-1's look like the don't care what they look like. The difference is this, N-1's look like they don't care what they look like because they really don't care what they look like, while M-2's look like they don't care what they look like because they actually do care what they look like, they just want to appear to not care what they look like. If you see a M-2 and a N-1 walking down the street, you can instantly tell them apart. The effort that M-2 puts into looking like they don't care what they look like is easily recognizable, thusly establishing the theory that it is impossible to intentionally look like you don't care what you look like. The un-effort N-1 puts into caring what they look like is easily recognizable in the fact that there is no pretension in the appearance that they don't care what they look like.
There are similar similarities between M-1 and N-2, though the differences are substantially different. M-1 really cares what they look like, so they put forth much effort into looking like they care what they look like. N-2 doesn't care at all what they look like, though they don't look like they don't care what they look like. They put forth no effort into looking like they care what they look like, nor do they put forth any effort into not looking like they care what they look like. They simply look like they whatever they look like.
I am not making judgments on any of these people. Personally, though, I feel most people should try to fit into category N-2, without trying too hard to fit in this category. If they try too hard, they will end up in category M-2, which is not as good as category N-2. I feel that both the M categories are unfulfillingly superficial, while category N-1 is greatly lacking in self-respect. Category N-2 maintains a persons self-respect, while not venturing into the treacherous waters of vanity.
I hope that this little post will be of some help to you as you make your fashion decisions.
That is all.

Addendum:
Earlier I said that there are two types of people in the world (which actually subdivides into four types of people, but for the sake of broad generalization, we will stick with two types of people). I wasn't completely right. There are actually 3 types of people in the world, yet I did not include the third category of people since it really isn't a category and it doesn't contain actual people. This third psuedo-category is hip-hop "artists." (I have never used the term "artist" in a broader sense. They are artists much like a person tripping on a sidewalk are artists.) To say that they have a fashion sense is like saying trees have athletic ability. I don't know who gets to decide what is "hip", nor do I know who gets to decide who gets to decide what is hip. I all know is that somebody decided these hip-hopsters get to decide what is "hip" (forever castrating that word), and they decided that miscellany is hip. A hip-hopster could wear a toilet seat around their head (like my daughter did the other day), and suddenly the toilet-seat industry would experience a boom they haven't seen since the ecoli outbreak of '87. I ask you, the common human, which is sillier, wearing a toilet seat around your head, or wearing your pants around your ankles?
That is really all.

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