It seems the world tries to tell people, women in particular, that they are ugly, inside or outside. Then it tries to sell them crap they don’t need to alleviate the dis-ease they have just caused. It feels as though everywhere we look people are being objectified either to force consumption or to coerce response.
The average women’s magazine content…
1. why you are perfect just as you are…. (But here are some tips on how to be a better you.)
2. here is a celebrated person (and how to compare yourself to them or be more like them.)
3. here is our ideal of beauty (and some make up adverts or adverts for sliming brands.)
4. why self improvement is important (if you want to get that man of your dreams…)
and so and so on nauseatingly ad infinitum.
All over town we see adverts for pretty much anything with beautiful people in not much clothing, as if I need to see a nearly naked woman to buy shoes, or a watch, or sports gear.
This kind of objectification is pretty much endemic and accepted by most of society as a norm we can do nothing about. I am not convinced we even need 90% of the shit we are being peddled. And, I am more and more unsettled by the ease with which we accept objectification of others and of ourselves.
I so wish that when we walk in the street and heard people talking about philosophy, or art, or how to eradicate poverty… rather than comparing ourselves to celebrities or talking about the latest soap opera and how so and so looked in this dress or suit. We have been fed on a mediocre diet of insipid platitudes. Our schools have forced us to introject that which we should be chewing over, we are encouraged to worship things of no substance, and now people seem unable to think for themselves. We have sacrificed our brains to the gods of TV and fake realities. We are afraid of the truth, afraid of discussion, silenced by political correctness. We have driven discussion underground and censored the minds of our children. It is horrific to see the wasted potential, like a battleground strewn with dead corpses that are still walking around as though they are alive.
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