Injected Ideaologies

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Introduction – Scalpel and scissors.

Is anyone else out there completely suffocating in this toxic waste of society? An era that yearns for pathetic, unfair ideologies of perfection. A world populated by self obsessed, blonde sheep that have no knowledge except the whereabouts to the best detox bar in the country. A rat race of starvation because of media institutions spoon feeding us Paris Hilton and Kate Moss and brain washing us to believe this is how we should look. Why this anarchy with one self I hear you ask? ‘Perfection’.

Yes, perfection. Some of us starve for it, kill for it, hell some of us have died for it but what is perfection? Does it even exist? Are these tall, intimidating, stick-like skeletal frames that we believe ideal really the best role models? And if not why do the images in the media signify such things?

I am offering a ticket to the harsh reality of achieving flawless beauty through fatal mediums. To witness the struggles of those so far from their goal of being a size ‘0’ that even their bodies have given up on them. We’re going to see surgeons, desire, anorexia, eating disorders, media manipulation and the gritty realism of the fear of being ‘impure’ and incorrect’.

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Cosmetic surgery was glamorised pretty much as soon as it began. Aesthetic surgery involved enhancing an appearance a subject feels the need to improve due to pressure of insecurity of some sort and usually involves restoring and recreating the body part to the subjects’ desire beyond the average level towards some aesthetic ideal. But why do it? The media have glamorised perfection repetitively by selling perfumed and clothes lines linked to skinny models but aside from these influences that we will come to later what else? None other than to attract the opposite sex.

Human beings have ...

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