We've talked a lot on Body in Mind about the various ways beautiful young women are destroyed in our world. But there is one way we've never mentioned that may prove to be the most insidious and destructive of all - it's a monstrous thing we call 'anti-value'.

Simply speaking, anti-value is the rebellion against all the bright, happy, positive things in life. It is that peculiar kind of evil which exists in men and in societies only to destroy good, and for no other reason. It chooses beautiful young women as its victims precisely because they have so much potential. It looks at the potential good within the budding body and mind of young women and spares no effort to destroy them both.

The way it destroys them is the way all monsters destroy children: it poses as a friendlier, wiser, kinder, more exciting alternative to the status quo.

For instance, as an alternative to eating properly and taking care of your body (made 'shallow' by fashion magazines and pointless by professional sports), anti-value offers 'cool' body piercings and tattoos. As alternative to a scientific education (made uninteresting by mindless repetition in modern classrooms), anti-value offers an exploration of 'inner space' through drugs and mystic religions. As alternative to the 'slavish' self-attention required for personal grooming, anti-value offers women 'sporty' short hair and the 'freedom' of hairy legs. As alternative to 'selfishly' earning money, it offers the selfless 'virtue' of giving it away (which makes one wonder how we are supposed to give away money without first making it.) And instead of taking the chances required to achieve our dreams in life, anti-value offers us the 'excitement' of risking outright loss of that life (see any of the modern moronic forms of dare-devilry).

Recruitment to the side of anti-value is so successful in young people because acccording to the teachers of anti-value, self-sacrifice and the hoarding of meaningless material objects are the only two moral alternatives we have to the 'excitement' of anti-value.

But they are wrong. My goal in life can be expressed in a single line: to expand and explore the greatness and glory of me. There is no more noble personal philosophy one can have. This does not mean that one should do anything one feels like to anyone one wants. On the contrary, it means that one's highest moral responsibility is to make oneself and one's world the very best they can be, and it requires something anti-value can never achieve: love of oneself, mankind, and of life on earth.

Life on earth requires us all to achieve certain things in order to make it possible and worthwhile. We call these things values - and those who pursue them 'pro-value'. They are things like purpose, rationality, and self-esteem; career, knowledge, happiness, and romantic love. Anti-value is characterized by being nothing more than a rebellion against such values. It is the worship of ugliness, not because ugliness has value, but because it doesn't. It is the worship of darkness, not because there are mysteries worth knowing hidden there, but because it is a place to avoid knowing anything. It is the worship of irrational mystic constructs such as religions and deviant philosophies not because they are true but because they represent an escape from the mind, and thus the responsibility of determining truth. Anti-value is the worship of non-material, out-of-body states of consciousness, not for those who seek the means to perpetuate the life of their bodies, but because they hate their bodies and want to escape them. It is often centered on the body and its physical pleasures, not because it wants to live, but because the body is all it has. Anti-value is obsessed with sex, because only pro-value souls are capable of conceiving and earning the romantic love of a soul-mate, and anti-value can't face that truth.

If you want some examples of beautiful women who are pro-value, I offer supermodel Hеіdі Klυm, or concert pianist and composer Chrіstіnе Andеrsоn (aka Lіttlе Mіss Mozart). As two examples of beautiful women who have sabotaged their own lives by dabbling in anti-value I offer you actress Wіnоnа Rydеr and model Jаmеs Kіng (James has recently put her life back on a positive track).

Compare any anti-value leaning woman to any pro-value one. Nothing illuminates the tragic waste created by anti-value better than comparisons with women who love life, and love themselves enough to live it fully.

Hopefully, you will see that anti-value is not an attempt to explore the fullest potential of one's life, but only to explore the various subtleties of death. It's not an attempt to enjoy the happiness of knowledge and success, merely the resignation to suffer in ignorance and indulge in aimlessnness. Anti-value is not glamorous, it is anti-glamour and despises beauty. Anti-value is not new and full of bright possibilities, it's as old and stale as any empty Egyptian tomb. And like the ancient Egyptians, whose ostensible purpose behind all of their elaborate, mystic rituals and incantations was a glorious life with the gods, the true purpose of the worship of death is to achieve nothing more than the pathetic remains of one's own ravaged corpse.

(One's own death is the only purpose and ultimate destination of anyone who is anti-value. Wіnоnа Rydеr is currently under suicide watch in a California hospital).

There's no human being more capable of pursuing and enjoying, expanding and exploring the greatness and glory of themselves than intelligent, beautiful young women. This is why it's so especially disturbing to find anti-value leanings and behaviour in them.

Every single tenet of every anti-value philosophy ever devised was meant to bring them down and keep down mankind's best. The solution - the only one - is to teach our children that it takes a truly heroic and enlightened person to dare to embark on the most exciting, romantic, and mind-expanding adventure possible to us: one's own life on earth.

Note: The ideas expressed above are opinions only. Assessment of character from a distance is not always reliable, and is not presented as fact but in illustration of our opinions. -DBell