4. ''There is a secret "underlife" poisoning our freedom; infused with notions of beauty, it is a dark vein of self-hatred, physical obsessions, terror of aging, and dread of lost control." Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth
16. Have we become plastic? Is the human body an object? What’s going on with all these weird lips that don't really look like lips? Are we so waxed, polished and enhanced we've started to lose the animal side of our nature?
18. The diet, beauty, cosmetic surgery and fashion industries are worth multi-billions. Continual economic growth is based on making people dependent on their quick fixes and sure fire solutions to physical imperfections. Every day new products are marketeed to "correct flaws," drawing people into an obsessive and hopeless cycle to reach an impossible photoshop standard of beauty. Just 2% of today’s women see themselves as beautiful.
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20. Have we been watching a warped, digitally distorted extended commercial break?
21. Can participatory media liberate us from the chokehold of corporations that would like to keep telling you how to look, how to feel, and what to think?