Among other things, eye candy can be used for selling fashion items worth several thousand dollars—like a purse—at a time when the average annual income of all of Earth’s inhabitants is around $7,000, and it helps to set standards of personal beauty for all of us that only a chosen few can ever live up to. In a worst-case scenario, the true nature of its limiting criteria used for defining beauty can be likened to the meaning behind the phrase “survival of the fittest,” defined here as a “…concept of human society, inspired by the principle of natural selection, postulating that those who are eliminated in the struggle for existence are the unfit.” This is a cruel hoax, one in which even our children can find themselves labeled as undesirable and unwanted by some. Presumably, we are our planet’s highest life forms based on what some believe to be our unique ability to reason, described as, “the capacity for consciously making sense of things, for establishing and verifying facts, and changing or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information.” Believing that each and every one of us has been so endowed, let us ask ourselves this question: should we be investing so much of our self-worth trying to keep up with what others have, while those who define whatever our fashion needs may be, willfully, and by design, seek to have each and every one of us endlessly pitted against one another, always engaged in a never-ending, cash-fueled, virtual contest that would have the vast majority of us trying to live up to a standard of personal beauty that was out of reach for us before we were ever conceived? --Charles Lamadrid
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 17:16:43 +0000
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