Ugliness as a Tool of Social Control

[Leonardo17]

Here is the conclusion Part of an article on today’s Russia:
 

“The sentiment is classic fatalism, the product of centuries of life under despotic rulers — czars, revolutionaries, oligarchs — who treated ordinary people as an inconvenience, one that could be resolved in the vast frozen wastelands of Siberia, littered with the bones of so many dead. Resignation has become a form of survival, a kind of political self-care.
 
Navalny is asking Russians to put aside their cynicism, difficult as that may be today. For years he has asked Russians to imagine a country other than the authoritarian petro-state Putin has fashioned from the wreckage of the Soviet Union.
 
“It requires a lot of patience. It’s really slow,” Volkov says of the work he and the Anti-Corruption Foundation are doing. But, he later adds, “it’s important that we don’t lose faith.””

https://www.yahoo.com/news/from-prison-dissident-alexei-navalny-plots-vladimir-putins-demise-200202833.html
 
- So Cynicisms, low feeling of self-worth, resignation in the face of political oppression and fatalism is the typical attitude of the oppressed masses.
 
   Beauty, high level of self-worth, belief in individual power to create change is the characteristic of a self-governing people made of free citizens.