Somebody Has To Say It....
Allow Me to Allow You to take a Look Into Our Twisted Society
Allow Me to Allow You to take a Look Into Our Twisted Society
What is happening to this world? It’s getting really scary… It’s just not peaceful. It’s unsettling, corrupt and disturbed. It's quite alarming.
Gas is a joke. The economy is a joke. Our government is $14 trillion in debt, spending tremendous amounts of money on unnecessary and secondary things. The government is corrupt. They hide things from the public just to avoid hysteria… but as citizens of this country under this government, don’t we deserve to know what’s really going on?
What is with all this war? I don’t even understand why we’re fighting; in fact, I don’t even care. I just think we need to arrive at peace. We live in a country called the “United” States—shouldn’t we be advocating unity and peace? We are all humans and have more in common than we think. Although we are different as individuals, we are still all the same. We’re ALL humans just living to find our purpose in this world. We all just want to be loved, and we all want to succeed. But instead, we would rather focus on others’ failures because it makes us feel better about ourselves, which is completely reprehensible. We always want to be above everyone else and want to believe we are better than others. We care too much about what people think, and we’re all so envious. We envy the envied because WE want to be envied. Society is drunk on power.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
People do not really understand life. The meaning of life, the meaning of it all is to learn. We were put on this Earth to learn and understand. It’s not necessarily all about knowledge; knowledge and wisdom are not the same. You cannot love, grow, understand or know until you learn. Everyday, anything and anyone can teach you something. For every opportune experience you take on, you learn to understand, not just to know. You understand and find wisdom through experience, not by studying books. The only way to learn and understand the world and the people in it is by taking the time to establish quality human-to-human connections and exploring, not only the beautiful things, but the bad things as well in the world around us.
Humans have this amazing and unique ability to learn and understand the world and gain wisdom through experiences and emotion, unlike any other living entity.
What is with the lack of self-respect people having? And people lack awareness about their lack of self-respect. People think they understand what self-love and self-respect are… Let me just say: you want people to notice you because you are interesting and unique, not because you’re wearing provocative clothing and exude powerful sexuality.
Everyone has some purpose. Everyone’s life has value. The value of life is one’s future—you value your future, you live for your future and you learn for your future. One doesn’t HAVE to believe in a ‘higher power,’ you just have to believe in meaning, purpose and hope, which can be just as powerful.
We’re all just looking for connection, trying to find emotion and accomplish our goals and dreams. Dreams keep people going, even the dreams we know won’t come true. If you can dream it, you can believe in it and you can live for it.
Now onto “America The Beautiful.”
The media has set the bar so high for society. We’ll never get where we want in life if we set our standards at an unattainable level. We can have our dreams, but we have to be realistic.
Plastic Beauty
America has created a society that is shaped around beauty; we are obsessed. The media emits this idea of an ideal image, which is unattainable to most. NO ONE is perfect, even those ‘beautiful’ people in Hollywood who ooze perfection. Plastic makes perfect; there are so many plastic people altering their bodies so they can match the ‘image’ of beauty. The image of beauty is imaginary. There should not be a standard for beauty—isn’t beauty subjective? America focuses their blame for this on the media, but is that fair? I think so..
The reality is, beauty is a business; beauty sells. Marketers use beautiful, talented people to advertise their product in a way that tends to convince people that they are not good enough the way they are, and if they buy the product it will allow them to improve as a person and be accepted by society. But is it fair for the media to correlate beauty with worth?
Inevitably, not everyone is equal nor has equal opportunities. Some are not as fortunate to be as beautiful or wealthy as others—but what constitutes beauty and wealth? The media defines beautiful as perfect, and perfect is unattainable. The media intentionally advertises unachievable beauty as a way to influence consumers to keep buying their product in attempts to achieve this unachievable perfection.
Is the media all to blame for our superficial way of life? I would say so… or at least the media is a large contributing factor. The media has total control of the messages being sent out to the public, and they choose to use beautiful, talented, wealthy people to set an example of what people should be.
In the media, they portray women as tall, skinny goddesses.
Fun Fact (or shall I say disgraceful fact): The average American woman is 5’5” tall and 140 pounds; the average American model—5’11” and 115 pounds. Can you believe that? The media has created a standard prototype for what beauty is.
What kind of example does this send out to children entering young adulthood—the most difficult and insecure years of one’s life? Why should young teens be pressured into feeling they must be perfect?
I read an article in the Sun Sentinel not too long ago about a mother who was administering Botox to her 8-year-old daughter. The little girl, convinced and brainwashed by her mother(who is clearly brainwashed as well), quoted, “I just, like, don't, like, think wrinkles are nice on little girls." Are you serious?.... WRINKLES ON LITTLE GIRLS?! Really? Since when do YOUNG GIRLS have wrinkles? Remember, that was quoted by an 8-year-old girl.
Has the media eliminated beauty as being a subjective standpoint? Have they robbed us our freedom to be who we are? Are beautiful people valued more in our society?
Like John Mayor said in a song, “One day our generation is gonna rule the population, so we keep waiting on the world to change.”
"We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a people-oriented society."
Your turn....
What do you think?
