Monday, July 6, 2009

With great beard comes great responsibility

Behold This Swarthy Face from Room5Films on Vimeo.

There is a lot clinging to the manhood's most important facial feature apart from yesterday night's soup croutons and morning breakfast's encrusted omelette remains: Virility, wisdom, confidence, determination, ideological fixations, intellectuality, and so on and so forth.

A beardless century had us passed by thanks to the ludicrous advent ironically named 'democracy' which required gentlemen to be well shaved in order to show their submissiveness to the norms of the society. Beard wearers were marked as cultural oddities, derelicts, revolutionaries, people who do not have enough money to buy hyper expensive shaving creams and apparatus, and other belittling and sometimes outright derogatory stereotypes. Beardless men were portrayed as objects of desire for women, successful businessmen, a pillar to the community, philanthropists, fertile beasts endowed with a more than average breeding organ. They fitted in the idea of a perfect and less complicated world.

This was the promise of the beardless age: obey every whim of the society or you will be cast out; throw your ideals, conform to achieve the privilege of being a slave, obey to others whimsical ideologies, shave it for the sake of getting laid, sell your soul for a job, fake respect from your peers, and a stale marriage.

Unfortunately it still is a beardless century but now people are realizing the truth that will save us from our shackles: with great beard comes great responsibility.

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