Would be one where people actually had individual personalities. Where there were 8 billion personalities and meeting someone new was a completely novel experience. In reality there's about 7 personality settings that are just dialed up or down to different extents in most people and the way a person looks tweaks how these settings will be perceived.
If you were go to a party with 100 people and was to describe a certain guy, you could say: "Well he was kind of shy but very nice and polite". That would describe 30 other guys. Personality is not an easily identifiable ID-marker. It would be much easier to say "He was about 5'9, blue eyes, curly black hair" and you'd have a better chance of the other person identifying him, maybe narrowing it down to 3 guys who look similar.
When people say they know someone really well, they only know what the other person wants them to know. A person can have a very different "personality" in the workplace compared to with being just with the family. Personality is such a poor metric of trying to catch someone's "essence", because it really doesn't exist, it's more of a series of words and expressions and reactions to the outside world at any given time. So when people say: "He wasn't himself tonight", how do they know that isn't his usual self when he isn't wearing the mask?
That's why it always comes down to looks. Looks are easy to identify, they give you reading of everything you need to know quicker, and as we all know, the worst possible personalities aren't going to stop foids over getting wet over someone.
If you were go to a party with 100 people and was to describe a certain guy, you could say: "Well he was kind of shy but very nice and polite". That would describe 30 other guys. Personality is not an easily identifiable ID-marker. It would be much easier to say "He was about 5'9, blue eyes, curly black hair" and you'd have a better chance of the other person identifying him, maybe narrowing it down to 3 guys who look similar.
When people say they know someone really well, they only know what the other person wants them to know. A person can have a very different "personality" in the workplace compared to with being just with the family. Personality is such a poor metric of trying to catch someone's "essence", because it really doesn't exist, it's more of a series of words and expressions and reactions to the outside world at any given time. So when people say: "He wasn't himself tonight", how do they know that isn't his usual self when he isn't wearing the mask?
That's why it always comes down to looks. Looks are easy to identify, they give you reading of everything you need to know quicker, and as we all know, the worst possible personalities aren't going to stop foids over getting wet over someone.
