Nov 24, 2007 11:25
They will never tell you’re not beautiful, but they’ll tell you that you’re special in your own sort of way. They’ll convince you to buy certain products so that you can fit in with the “majority” and become part of a brain washed, social community where everyone is a commodity. You’ll try losing weight and start going to the gym everyday just to look like that girl on the side of a bus who’s been airbrushed. You’ll lose all self consciousness and become constantly worried about how society looks at you and what you should do differently. You might even succumb to taking speed (diet pills) so that you can continue on with your day without having to make a stop at the gym. Then when you do start to look “beautiful” you’ll steal a glance in a mirror and admire yourself and think “I look just like her now.” You’ll start buying the newest trends and fashions and all of a sudden you’re so popular it’s overwhelming. You’ll laugh at the people who read a book on their break at work and shun the person who wears something so simple that they almost shouldn’t exist. You’re better than them.
But truthfully, you’re just part of a ventriloquist design in which someone else is the puppet master. You and all your other puppet friends will look down on everyone else and feel like you’re on top of the world. You’ll bath in our ugliness and crush us like an unwanted cockroach. You’ll laugh at our desire and pity our lifestyles, for instance you might say “Look at him, he’s not cool, not only does that shirt not match, but he could lose about 25 pounds.” In the end you’ll think you have won, because when you look into the mirror at the end of the day you feel so damn good about yourself.
But you’ll forget that when you look into that mirror, you’re actually staring at something you don’t even own. You might as well be a piece of designer material, part of a world that is one big competitive market. You’re not real.
In OUR world, there are no mirrors, just self reflection on our selves, as humans. I live and breathe because the world says so, but the rest is up to me.
models,
self being,
clarity,
reflection,
marketing,
social issues