There’s that one Batman: The Animated Series episode when the antagonist was a beautiful actress who thought she was ugly and irredeemable because years of trauma and stress locked her mind to see only the minor imperfections instead of the full picture. That’s what I see whenever I see an actually beautiful person does cosmetic surgery.

“We must imagine a guy who cheated death once by sealing the god of death for a while, and another time by tricking the gods with the flimsy lie of “my wife didn’t bury my body properly, let me teach her a lesson” happy for getting the eternal punishment of never reaching his goals while living forever.”

And people are looking at me angrily when I say that philosophers are dumbasses who has zero media literacy and trying to fill that with constant bullshit.

Look, China IS an authoritarian and oligarchic country. The difference between them and the USA is that the oligarchs in China is a bit more benevolent towards their people.