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It will never not make me smile whenever I see That Kind of New Age Woo Guy go on about how long hair is somehow inherently spiritually powerful and that cutting one's hair short (or just shaving it off) is somehow debilitating or emasculating(???)—right up until the moment I remind them that Buddhist monks exist, or that ancient Egyptian priests in the Greco-Roman period (famed for all their magics and god-summonings) shaved their heads and bodies assiduously, or that spiritual practitioners who just go bald are a thing the whole world over. The amount of stuttering they usually produce makes me feel they've run out of some sort of engine fluid.
Yes, I know, these are often culturally-bound notions that are prized or not in various places or traditions, but to see these guys deflate from such obvious counterexamples that they can't argue against just makes me feel like I'm cleaning up litter someone else left behind. At the end of the day, just do you, just do what you need to do however you need to do it, and let that be the end of the matter. Issuing such grandly sweeping universal proclamations on what is rather clearly not a universal thing is where we all go hilariously astray.