This is unbelievably pertinent. We've grown so accustomed in this virtual world of having avatars and proxies to hide behind, like books judged by their covers

This is unbelievably pertinent. We've grown so accustomed in this virtual world of having avatars and proxies to hide behind, like books judged by their covers with studies showing most folks do not even read beyond headlines, that we want that face value BS to transfer to IRL, thus giving us identity politics and the like. We want to be judged (and judged positively at that) for our packaging and Halloween costumes we present to the world, instead of provable merits. What we'd like rather than who we truly are. And as a one-two punch, the general response is that not enough persons put their proverbial or literal money where their mouths are but where they want their mouths to be.