You know how there are people you meet all over the world who look like each other? And not just certain characteristics, but the whole person? I notice this quite a bit and even have been keeping track of certain categories of people. Like people with wide eyes that always look too alert. Or certain groups of red-haired women: those with thick wastes, large breasts, and large lips as opposed to those with paler skin, thin noses and no lips. This latter group tends to have collies and cocker spaniels with red hair to match them.
So, what I’m wondering is, are these people related? Was there a time when they formed clans in villages in Europe? Or migrated together across Asia? When you came to a town a few thousand years ago, did everyone look exceptionally similar? Or is it simply the inevitable coincidences from combining physical characteristics randomly?
Posted by bluprnt at June 24, 2004 04:36 PMI totally know exactly what you are talking about and it has freaked me out for a while. Frankly I think a lot of people look a like, and sometimes I think that celebrities are embodiment of certain "archetype looks". Also I think I personally may have a slight case of Prosopagnosia, as I have trouble recognizing people I have met. I used to think I was bad with names, but actually I see people I have met before and I get really uncertain that it is who I think it is.
Posted by: Jesse at June 30, 2004 05:31 PMi have the oposite condition of you. i remember people so well it freaks them out. "hey, we'ren't you at that party your cousine had two years ago in the green shirt?" i usually keep my mouth shut. plus i've recently realized I have the world's most useless superpower: the ability to recognize anyone ever from the back at a distance. but names, forget it. i can never remember a name. it's like i'm not even listening when they say it. like i dont even care. maybe i dont care. who knows.
i would agree about the celibrity thing....so many celebrities look like celebrities of the past....one thing that is fun is to look at ancient scupture and see if you can imagine them as modern people and what beautify realm they would occupy. sometimes its quite different. like this: http://www.ibiblio.org/louvre/paint/auth/michelangelo/michelangelo.david.jpg
would he be considered hot?
and sometimes they're eternally hot: http://www.chez.com/scultpturesmuriel/page7fp.htm
(note the title of the piece).