The town is not, you know, Whitewater, Wisconsin; we don’t have a mayor.
No, the mayor in the town of Mount Isa in Australia issued a call for unattractive women to move to his community. He reasoned that the town had a preponderance of men, so women of any kind would be welcome.
(The mayor refers to the kind of women he has in mind as ‘beauty-disadvantaged.’)
It’s foolish, of course: a call like this won’t produce any sensible takers, of whatever appearance.
The solution is to make the town more beautiful – deeply, truly, in its institutions and character – not to worry about superficial qualities inside or outside.
No call to the outside will be half so valuable as the reform of our institutions within. If a town changes, and embraces free markets and personal liberty, then it will be truly attractive to others.
Here’s the link a story on the Australian effort:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5icmTQMacKESYU
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