Two very different kinds of beauty: the Gilded Turd vs the Grubby Truffle.

The Gilded Turd is superficially beautiful, but fundamentally disgusting.

The Grubby Truffle is superficially disgusting but fundamentally beautiful.

Even an infinite amount of polishing can't make a Gilded Turd fundamentally beautiful.

Closed systems tend to be Gilded Turds, and open systems tend to be Grubby Truffles.

In the modern world, superficial appearances are all that people have time for.

We're surrounded by Gilded Turds.

Hollow. Shiny. Empty. Gross.