Hair might be biologically useless but it’s still a sign of youth and vigour in a society that prizes youth and vigour over almost everything. Someone with hair can, if they wish, change their entire personality in an instant. In the space of a few minutes, armed with nothing but a brush and some scissors, they can completely alter the information that they put out into the world about themselves. Are they serious? Sensitive? Really into perms? Hair can tell people that instantly. This does not apply to the bald. Once you become bald, you only have one personality open to you, and that is ‘man with scalp’. If baldness is a sign of anything, it is a sign that you have become less capable of change. It demonstrates that everything will be the same for us, every single day, until we die. Unless of course we go crazy and start experimenting with beards.
