People walking against us are seen as threats

On the escalators you stop for a while. You stop to observe the people who come against you to the opposite direction. I dare to say we judge these people without knowing them. If someone looks ugly, dirty, strange, hippie, annoying, drunken etc. we acknowledge that in our brain and mark them as different from the rest. We remember these people that look different. Often we see these people as threats to us and something we believe in. The rest we ignore.

All the politicians wear the same clothes so that they are not seen as treats but as someone who sees things the same way. It's easier to deal with people that look alike. If someone looks different because he/she wears something different we easily think that they are somehow different to us. Their political views have to differ from ours. If some Finnish minister would wear red all the time he/she would probably not even be minister or at least not for long. It would be easy to say he/she is doing something wrong because she/he looks different. All physical qualities that make you look a lot different are bad in a longer run, even if that means that you are extremely beautiful or handsome. Those might give you the popularity of a small group and it could help you stay in power but you could never be taken seriously as long as you look different from the mainstream.

Looks matter so much these days that nobody can't even understand it. We judge people by their covers. Of course you have to start judging people from somewhere that is totally understandable.. or is it? That's not the case with books. You simple can't tell if a book is good until you read it. We're only humans so it is a human thing to do, judging I mean, but I'm saying that we should stop every once in a while and think if these people really are that much different from us.

The escalators is a perfect place to be superficial and judge a person by it's cover and keep on living your life wearing jeans and a white t-shirt with a nike logo. It's the safe thing to do. The other person can't get into your private space. He/she is on an other line going into the wrong direction (even safer ways to judge people are TV, radio, newspapers and magazines). You are the one who knows for certainty where you are going and it's the only way to go. You're so smart aren't you? The idea that the ugly guy in the escalators wearing a rainbow colored cape and strange pants, listening Jazz with his iPod, while going to visit his girlfriend who is working in a restaurant is really stupid person and could never be our next president, is an absurd idea because...

Lets all start judging

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