Thoroughgoing materialism

"I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves." 

- Osmel Sousa, the longtime head of the Miss Venezuela pageant on the popularity of plastic surgery in Venezuela (NY Times Quotation of the Day, 7 Nov 2013)

My thoughts:

This is materialism in its most honest and consistent form: the only things that are real are those that we can see and touch and manipulate.  Somehow I don't think this leads to human flourishing.