Television

It seems to me that television is often aimed at the lowest common denominator these days. Along the same lines I worry that a lot of TV programmes and media in general, make the average everyday person feel inadequate. There seems to be sooo many programmes focused on physical appearance for one reason or another. It seems like everyone wants to have some sort of surgery, no one seems happy with what they have!

I certainly am aware of my flaws but I’m not really all that bothered to be honest. Not all of us were designed to be models. Some of us were meant to be a little shorter, curvier etc. It would be so boring if we all looked the same…

I am not sure how good the morals are, of some of the surgeons that do these procedures- it feels like they take advantage of people that have low self esteem/confidence/ are generally looking for confirmation in an area of their life where they feel they have some modicum of control, where perhaps they don’t in other areas of their lives.

In a funny sort of way, saying you have had surgery is like having the latest designer accessory, who has done the procedure? how many have you had?…being seemingly important questions in an increasingly fake plastic modelled society.

I didn’t really have a lot else to say, was just watching Louis Theroux. There is a lady who is having surgery to essentially boost her confidence after splitting up with her partner of 8 years, it seems almost a cliche, she said she was doing it for herself but it seems more like she is trying to prove to him what he’s lost-  but in a way she is different to what he ever had ( not sure I am making sense to anyone other than myself!). If he was to like her more after all the surgery- he never really liked her and she is ( in my opinion) weak for letting him back intoher life because he’s shallow and a bit of a twat! But then she has needed a $2000 dollar a day life coach to help her make decisions about every aspect of her life ( one who has had considerable amounts of surgery herself! perhaps she gets commission from the surgeon?? hmmm ) from her clothes, her hair… everything. I think it is sad that a person is so lacking in self worth they need someone to make those decisions for them. I am also concerned when someone seems to have more money than sense and is paying some self righteous money grabber who is taking advantage of them in their hour of need / taking advantage of their weakness.

It’s the business of starting a fresh in those circumstances, most people do something- change their wardrobe, get a hair cut- it’s the same idea but it’s more extreme. I am just not sure its worth it! People should love you for you, I know that’s idealistic, verging on naive, but essentially the exterior is a very small part of a person. I suppose we are all judged on it – it’s up to the individual concerned I suppose. I would never tell someone else what they should or shouldn’t do because I wouldn’t want it to be done to me.

I shall finish with a bit of a quote from the end of Theroux’s program which I feel says an awful lot about my own opinion of plastic surgery,
‘Plastic surgery has taught us to feel inadequate when we don’t measure up, creating a world of beautiful haves and less beatiful have nots’… speaking of his own experience of plastic surgery Theroux said he had ‘caved into convention and lost a little part of me’.

 I suspect he meant more than what the lipo had removed…