How Superficial Are You?
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Average - I like stuff, but don't go crazy
47.06% (24)
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Very - Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
33.33% (17)
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Little - Cheap living is best living
17.65% (9)
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None - I live in a hovel in the woods off the grid
1.96% (1)
Votes:
51
I ask this not necessarily in the sexual sense, but in the materialistic sense - although there's likely a lot of overlap there.
We're all superficial to some extent or the other, because that's kind of the nature of visual creatures and because we've lived in societies which have highly advanced advertising industries which exploit our desires for the newest shiny doodad.
I wonder this because over the years I've seen the types of things people talk about, and it makes me curious as to how much we would self-identify with being superficial...so I've broken it down into 4 categories.
1. Very Superficial - You basically like all the best of everything. If money was no object you'd buy custom tailored clothes, drive the most luxurious/fast car you could find, and would live in the Penthouse so you could look down upon all the little people - whom you stomp on. Opulence - you has it.
2. Average - You like nice shit, but it's stupid to basically light money on fire for things that are only marginally better than something you could have for much less. You don't need a BMW 5 series when a Toyota Corolla will do, you know? Or, I can get a nice suit at Men's Factory rather than at some fancy-pants expensive place. You like a nice glass of wine/champagne, but there's no need for dropping hundreds of dollars on a bottle. Nice things are good to have, but you don't need to be bawdy about it. You might be the Jones' next door.
3. A little superficial - You don't really want to have all that expensive crap. Sure, living in a modern society means that you need to have access to things like the internet, so you have a computer and cell phone, but they're old, and there's really no need to buy the biggest and bestest new versions. You might have a car (or not, if you live in the city), but you try not to use it, and would rather use public transportation or your bike or soemthing if possible. To you, clothes are just for covering up your body and keeping warm - no need to spend all kinds of money just to be flashy about it. You might enjoy Burning Man.
4. Not at all superficial - You really think materialism is a joke. Humans were meant to live in communes, to live by the land, and not to excess. You prefer nature to advanced modern civilization, and live your life as such. To you, people who camp are just posers - real people live in the wild. The modern, fast paced, electrified, consumerist world is an abomination to you. And those wannabe Burning-Man attending hipsters who pretend to like the wilderness on the weekend, only to return to their cubicle and iMac for the other 5 days a week are posers too. You might be Ted Taczynski.
Obviously, I'm categorizing those things a little roughly, so if you want to take issue with any of them, or think you fall between a couple, tell us where below.
You know those are two different options, right?
