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Why Are Women Struggling With Mental Health?

Chris Williamson

The podcast explores the normalization of cosmetic surgery and beauty treatments, arguing that unlike other industries driven purely by supply and demand, there exists a bottomless desire among women for enhancement fueled by rapid technological innovation. The speaker illustrates how standards have …

How Did The Modern World Get So Ugly? - Sheehan Quirke

Chris Williamson

In this discussion, Sheehan Quirke challenges the modern obsession with defining beauty, arguing instead for a vocabulary centered on words like interesting, charming, and meaningful to describe our physical environment. He posits that while "ugliness" is subjective, boredom is an objective problem …