Patterns of Development. Human, #21

There is an entire living intelligent world everywhere, ready to accept you if you are only developed enough to reach it, yet people seek to develop superficially instead, depending on the fashion and social believes in place wherever they live, missing all living intelligent details of this world. Only decades ago, being tall and strong was very desirable, along with winning in fistfights and holding your liquor.
This was what people sought the most in life, and therefore this was what people developed the most, their muscles, stature, and addictions, in a very familiar developmental pattern. Knowingly or not, people grew taller and highly athletic. You can still see these people currently, looking surprising now at their old age, with oversized skeletons and floppy skin, recalling those old grandiose times.
While even further in the past, throughout famines and recessions, it was more appealing to look fat and healthy, just to show to the world how wonderful you were. Since this was exactly what people developed the most in themselves back then, fat. Currently, people seek social supremacy and material achievements the most, developing their own social skills accordingly, while morphing and reshaping their faces and bodily parts in order to look younger and enhanced in every manner, making everybody more attractive and more accepted.
Therefore, this is how people develop, mostly physically, socially, and consensually, at all costs and through all efforts. It is very common to develop in this apparently enhanced manner currently, just the way being strong, drunk, and fat used to be the norms in the past. Could enhanced bodily appearance and enhanced social status be as irrelevant currently as many developmental patterns from the past? Are you actually tricked into investing your time and effort in specific developmental patterns decided for you by those controlling society? Is it done in this manner to keep you distracted throughout life? Because this is relevant to know, since once you start developing inadequately at the beginning of your life, you cannot change afterwards, and you go down from there, just the way plants growing crooked in the beginning are doomed to remain bent and crooked for life.
Throughout this book, we study the human development in all its patterns, how and why it takes place, at what level, through what patterns, and with what consequences, in order for you to decide and control your own developmental pattern throughout life, for you, for your loved ones, and for the entire world.