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Well, you are from a different country, so maybe the cultural dynamics I'm describing aren't the same down there. I don't know.
A picture of one extremely exceptional person is not relevant in a discussion about general social trends. You'd have to support your position (whatever it is) by pictures of random people that can be taken as representative of the population, or of social trends, as I did.
I simply pointed out an observable fact, supported by evidence (though I think it's pretty self-evident in itself) that people shaved their face in civilized times, and that the enemies of civilization make a point about not shaving. I speculated on why this should be the case. But as a cultural trend it is unmistakable.
Why do you think it is that the hippies didn't shave?
I think that I am not mistaken to think that most man in the middle ages had some kind of facial hair. Most portraits of kings from that era show bearded and long haired men.
The middle ages were the climax of our civilization. So, I don't see a relation between lack of facial hair and "civilized times".
The hippies surely wore long beards and long hair as a sign of protest. We agree here. But, as I see it, it is something that stayed in the 60s. In the 70s, beards were common enough that most people wouldn't see a bearded man as a revolutionary.
Before World War I, long, bushy beards were very fashionable. The hippie movement started about forty years after that was was over. So, it seems obvious to me that their rebel beards were something that had significance for a relatively short amount of time.
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