More on Monster Making
In part two I discussed the mistaken idea that being cold and heartless equals being more mature.It is because of a similar unbridled Human competitiveness that plastic surgeons had to develop a map of what is attractive in a human face.
Otherwise their patients would forever be wanting Bigger and bigger lips and bigger and bigger eyes to 'out do' others with their beauty and in so doing, unwittingly cross ‘the monster line’.
For whenever we start believing we are (or can be) superior to anyone else, we unwittingly take steps down the path towards making our self into a monster ...