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Good grooming, posture, poise, how you dress... these are all things that show you take pride in yourself. oh for fuck's sake, you sound like my fucking mother. not one of those things has a damned thing to do with how intelligent you are or how intelligent people think you are. what the fuck babe? some of the stupidest people i know take inordinate amounts of pride in themselves. i know a whole shitload of well dressed, impeccably groomed idiots. if what you say was true, then why don't people assume fashion models are brilliant?
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Ah, see now that comes under the heading, "social intelligence", meaning how much time and energy you devote to impressing other people - and yes, it tends to come higher on most peoples list of attributes than (G) general intelligence - which is what the IQ test tests for HL.
This ethic become widespread in the Eighties, coinciding with the popularity of moral relativism and conspicuous consumption, ("it's not who you are, it's what you wear", "U got the look", etc. - including) and it's a bit of a step back, i.e., the reptilian complex responds to visual cues, displays, and ritualized behavior patterns, as do insects, it's a very very basic set of traits that even ants comprehend.
In fact the subject first emerged when a car rental agency, I think it was, fired a desk clerk because she didn't conform to their standards of young and thin (she was a MILF, but MILF's weren't hot yet), there was a lawsuit, and it was a problem in numerous industries - Hooters, I think is an example of this ethic taken to it's logical conclusion, it' s been very good to the diet and plastic surgery industries.
It's always been there, it's basically a Puritan value (cleanliness is next to godliness), but often qualifies as a neurosis taken to the usual extremes - it's a common element of Narcissism ("out, damned spot!", i.e., Lady MacBeths compulsive handwashing), in which inner, or self esteem is overridden by external judgements. It is a feature of human culture, particularly European, which probably reflects steady contamination of the water supply - they drank wine, and didn't wash for that reason, but attributed disease to the odor of ordure (miasma) - until some smart guy came along and looked for bugs in the water itself.
Personally, my theory is that nowadays, it's largely the result of pervasive media influence, i.e., there are very few average looking people on TV, they're almost uniformly clean, good looking and well dressed, reflecting the corporate value systems of the advertisers.
So no, it's not a really a sign of intelligence, in fact if you are intelligent, it simply means you're devoting more of your available memory registers to tracking and conforming to social expectations and compromising your objectivity - but you look good doing it, and that probably counts more than intelligence.
Excessive cleanliness can actually be dangerous, living under antiseptic conditions means you immune system is not keeping up, and developing new antibodies - the mortality rate in the 1917 influenza epidemic was highest in rural areas, where the inhabitants were not exposed to as wide a range of pathogens - the recent-killer-flu-that-wasn't might not have been because the same vectors that allow it to spread so rapidly (jet age transportation), limits its lethality: more people are exposed to a less than lethal dose far enough in advance to build up antibodies.
Now if I talked like this on a date, I'd probably be the one sitting there waiting for her to come back from the bathroom.
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