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Western society seems obsessed with looking like Hollywood movie stars. It's sad to see middle-aged celebrities whose faces look like something out of a wax museum due to multiple injections and surgeries trying to recapture a fleeting youth.
It's a society where values are based in a glamour fantasy encouraged
by television commercials promising fixes for anything and everything.
If you want to feel better about yourself-get breast implants. If
you want to feel better without having to deal with the problems of life-take
an antidepressant. If you don't want to change your lifestyle-get
liposuction.
Solutions to life's problems come fast and easy: If you don't like something, just throw it away and get something new and improved-including a new husband or wife. Get more money, get more stuff, and when your face begins to mark time with wrinkles, get Botox.
Let's face it-the trashy, trampy sexuality of pop stars hasn't helped young girls find real happiness in their relationships. And how many times have we seen a young woman wasting away with anorexia or bulimia because her sense of identity is framed by a near-impossible vision of beauty she sees on the big screen?
An Associated Press/MTV poll asked people aged 13-24, "What makes you happy?" What do you think was the number one answer? Friends? Money? Clothes? Drugs? Having a girlfriend? Surprisingly, it was "time spent with family"-quite a different answer than many people would suspect.
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