Fashion, expensive clothes, makeup, hairstyles: all of it feels like the last gasp of a historical precedent that is, ultimately, shallow and meaningless. In

Fashion, expensive clothes, makeup, hairstyles: all of it feels like the last gasp of a historical precedent that is, ultimately, shallow and meaningless. In the same way that sports is meaningless. Mostly harmless, totally meaningless. My larger critique of appearance-minding is how manifestly classist it is: certain (expensive) clothes and appearances must be worn in certain places and social circles to identify your belonging. Lots of people are screened out by this filter alone. And time and money is wasted on appearance. It's also ironic that, among a certain set, whose profound knowledge and skills are so vast and impressive that they deserve massive compensation for their time (I'm looking over at the C-suite here), there is still plenty of time and energy available to focus on appearance: clothes, shoes, cars, hairstyles. All vapid things. Vaporware. Hmmm.