#The world will be full of elections this year, and several recent studies of the upcoming election extravaganza have been very interesting. Stanford University researchers linked political views to facial features and found that people with wider and stronger jaws voted for right-wing and conservative parties, while those with thinner faces and childlike features favored left and liberal ideologies. According to the same study, computer models are now able to predict people’s political opinions with incredible accuracy, just after a quick scan of their faces – a discovery that, of course, prompted a number of alarming decisions in the future about the impending AI dictatorship in which no one will be able to escape the all-seeing and all-knowing abilities of its digital majesty, the Algorithm.
And some time ago, another study in the US showed that some men who voted for the Liberal Democratic Party turned to conservative Republicans after taking the steroid hormone testosterone. The two new studies link political leanings to biological factors and conclude that stronger, fitter men who train with weights vote for right-wing parties, and those the narrowest voting for left-wing parties.
Thus, science entered a meme culture of physical-political posts, collages and jokes, which became viral especially in online male circles and especially among today’s fitness experts, red meat, historical facts about World War II, the Roman Empire and more. interests of curiosity which the media usually associate with the rise of conservative values among young men. At the same time, sociologists measure the rise of liberal views among young women. In other words, gender dimorphism gives a surprising political color to the world’s biggest election year. It will be interesting.
Regarding the previously mentioned male meme culture, one of its elements is the veneration of the ancient Greek ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body, and to this there is a surprising return of the smallpox cult square From ancient Roman statues of beauty, through the first comic book representations of Superman and Batman, to the post-modern meta persona of the so-called GigaChad, the handsome male lower face is the aesthetic desire of millions of jargon-literate young people. the internet. It is no coincidence that some of them use steroids and growth hormones, which, in addition to muscle mass, are often able to change the structure of the face and give macho bear proportions. This cult was also particularly strong in the 80’s and 90’s, when some of the biggest stars were Apollos in action like the powerful square owners Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren and many others.
They are also among the few showbiz celebrities who vote for right-wing parties. Coincidence!
The strong chin and prominent features create a muscular macho archetype and a symbol of prestige, menace and toughness. And now the square jaw has become a political tool. The Internet is full of jokes and comparisons between different men – those with few muscles, weak skeletal structure, thin and soft facial features are recognized as passive and progressive voters of the left parties. To online conservative circles, these characters are the basis of the modern liberal system in Western civilization, with its attitude towards feminism, LGBTQ, and the constant search for minorities to to be portrayed as another victim of “toxic white patriarchy”.
At the same time, men with handsome physiques and rough geometric faces have become reference points for new right-wing conservatism and the so-called forces of reaction.
The mainstream media does not do much to condemn these physical-political differences with the attack on fitness culture. Several articles in liberal publications warn that lifting weights will turn you into “extreme xenophobes,” and some journalists even use terms like “fitness fascism.”
Let’s go back to the Stanford researchers’ study as well. Their computer model was able to predict the political orientation of 3,401 participants from the UK, US and Canada. For the purpose of the study, they were all without special clothes, accessories, earrings, with shaved faces and hair pulled back to a uniform. They were required to have the same expressions to avoid external factors in the determination of political leanings. And the algorithm recognizes again who is on the right and who is on the left only by the pure structure of the faces. Human raters also obtained similar results and correctly determined the political views of the participants.
Some of the scientists on the team warn that their findings show how the massive collection of biometric data through surveillance technologies is even more dangerous to human freedom than they might have imagined.
Think about how you pass a scanner or another security camera and just by the structure of your face they already know how you vote and what your interests are. “The future is here, old man!”, as one funny line went. We have to meet the technological challenges with our chin up. Whether it is square or not.
2024-05-04 08:35:31
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