FURTHER EVIDENCE OF HOMO SAPIENS' PROFOUND SUPERFICIALITY

Imagine there are two men competing to become the next president of the United States (or of any other country the bulk of whose people have at least some say in choosing their government).
Candidate A -- impeccably groomed, without a single hair out of place and exuding a mellifluous fragrance of the most expensive eau de cologne -- preaches a message of social divisiveness, of ardent nationalism, of perpetual conflict against those who do not conform to the accepted norm in either behavior or thought.
Candidate B -- tieless, crumbs dotting his roughly shaven face, and always looking as though he has just rolled out of bed -- speaks of tolerance, of fairness, of international cooperation.
Who would get YOUR vote? If you are the typical voter, like 99% of virtually any electorate, you will select Candidate A -- or, at best, reject both men as equally unworthy of support. Such is the inordinate emphasis people place on dress, grooming, and hygiene -- both for their own sake and (most illogically) as indicative of one's intelligence, integrity,and moral standards. While no politician's defeat can be attributed solely to a poor sense of fashion -- even dictators want to look sartorially sharp before their subjects -- a glance inside just about any corporate headquarters or law firm or retail store or government office reveals the extent to which society at large has come to judge "respectability" first and foremost by appearance, less visible qualities be damned (or at any rate ignored unless and until the employee can show he/she is "up to snuff" in terms of clothing and cleanliness).
To be sure, homo sapiens are not the only species to demonstrate this obsession with the literal as well as figurative externals of existence. But neither do other species make as many pretensions as humans do to "superiority," physical or otherwise. Need my equanimity at the prospect of humanity's eventual extinction require any further explanation?