1923 Predictions About Beauty

Fewer Doctors and Present Diseases Unknown; All People Beautiful Beauty contests will be unnecessary as there will be so many beautiful people that it will be almost impos- sible to select winners. The same will apply to baby contests.

A vintage newspaper-style prediction claims that future medicine will eliminate disease and make everyone beautiful, rendering beauty contests and baby contests unnecessary. The absurdly optimistic prophecy is funny because it treats universal beauty as a practical problem, making it useful as a reaction to naive predictions about the future. EN: A vintage newspaper-style prediction claims that future medicine will eliminate disease and make everyone beautiful, rendering beauty contests and baby contests unnecessary. The absurdly optimistic prophecy is funny because it treats universal beauty as a practical problem, making it useful as a reaction to naive predictions about the future.

• @beobanka / 21853 2023-01-04