{"id":4027,"date":"2019-06-19T18:46:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T18:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/?p=4027\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T14:18:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T14:18:51","slug":"uglies-scott-westerfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/en\/2019\/06\/19\/uglies-scott-westerfeld\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;UGLIES&#8221; by Scott Westerfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Uglies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Uglies-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Uglies-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Uglies.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>Being inspired, probably, by the increased number of plastic surgeries, especially for the very young people, Scott Westerfeld wrote the trilogy UGLIES.<\/p>\n<p>The author imagines the future world, divided into UGLIES and PRETTIES.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>\u201c\u2026 maybe that was why they separated uglies from pretties. It must be horrible to see an ugly face when you\u2019re surrounded by such beautiful people all the time.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At 16 years old, any person can be transformed from Ugly to Pretty, by having a deep aesthetic surgery:<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong> \u201cthe bones ground down to the right shape, the nose cartilage and cheekbones stripped out and replaced with programmable plastic, skin sanded off.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>\u201cThey said it didn\u2019t hurt, except the new skin, which felt like a killer sunburn for a couple of weeks. <\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The reason for this extreme method is coming from the past of humanity, i.e., our current times:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>\u201cEveryone judged everyone based on their appearance. People who were taller got better jobs, and people even voted for some politicians just because they weren\u2019t quite as ugly as everyone else.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>\u201cSo what if people look more alike now? It\u2019s the only way to make people equal.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is another explanation, hidden from the people\u2019s knowledge: the government is creating its obedient citizens. While the people are in the operation room, the surgeons are modifying their brains so they will be transformed into silly Pretty people!!!<br \/>\nIt seems that even though in the future the technology is very well advanced, the people\u2019s propensity to evil is still there.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>\u201cBeing pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. 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