just thinking about beards..
beardiness is more a state of mind than a state of face.
you can have a beardy perspective on life and be completely clean shaven. i have thought of some things that might characterise a beardy.
beardies are likely to play the guitar.
they are likely to read the guardian.
they are probably not any good at football (or really any sport).
they are likely to be a member of (or at least sympathetic to) greenpeace.
they probably watch the west wing - and think toby is the best character.
they act like they don't much care about their appearance.
they think they are "alternative" and have insight that others cannot see.
as you can tell i really haven't found a specific purpose for rmy blog. it's kind of weird - like a personal diary that is available for anyone to read.
if you have read this far i would appreciate it if you added a comment and maybe you could add some characteristics of beardies aginst non-beardies.
peace out rabbit
1 comment:
To take a natural history view on this.... facial hair, and indeed other non-cranial human hair, indicates to others that one is an adult - it signals reproductive maturity, much like hair under the arms and other such areas.
As such, beards signal to others the maturity of the individual, and most males (before the advent of the razor) would have sported such a facial adornment in some abundance. They may, however, have left themselves open to greater possibility of infestation by fleas, ticks or other follicular parasites - this might have required grooming by desirable females, which is good.
Bearded folk these days may well enjoy their bearded status as it creates for them a psychological proximity to those days when humans did not shave - they co-existed in a subsistnece manner, without agriculture, more naturally and harmoniously with their surrounding ecology. Most male hunter-gatherers would have had beards. Indeed the elder members of any group would have had longer beards in the absence of cutting implements - hence beards may well have a long and deeply rooted psychological connection with perceptions of maturity, experience, knowledge and wisdom.
My take on the psychology of beardedness is this - growth of beard is a deeply human, grounding activity, indicative of masculine maturity and intellectual standing, which reminds us of our human status, connection to the world and others. Beard is word.
Best beard and best example of my theory - Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws.
My theory would fall down if Christopher Biggins were to grow one...but then he may be a genetic mutation leading to a possible fat&camp splinter species which can thrive in the ecology of panto.
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