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Political status: soft anarchy.
The WoB (War on Beauty) was the second great ideological war of the human race - or whatever came after it. Just like the first great ideological war of the human race, it didn't dare call itself by its own name: in fact, it was not over aestethical standards we were fighting about. It was about the prevailing of a technology over another. Would a being be better-looking whether he looked more like a human being (bipeds, five senses, fingers, conscience and such), or if he could better adapt into a specific environment (another word for work)? What was to be better anyway? (Just when you believed metaphysics were dead...)
A consensus was reached when everybody had gotten some tech into their bodies - even if it was mere better hearing. Some consciences, by their own will, would not feel the ("primary", they'd say) sex drive. Among those who did feel it, by their own will or by lack of divisa, it would be the human represented by its most failing aspect (cellulitis became a fetish and were reinduced into the genome) or antinomic machines.