Throughout the whole novel of Amusing Ourselves To Death, Neil Postman made a valid point of how the outside appearance can affect one person's judgement. Everyone judges people based on looks no matter if it's someone they met for the first time or a close friend who has been there for you throughout your whole life. A description of a person is not highly necessary because we all at one point judge someone on the outside and sometimes when we know start knowing the person, our judgement is right on point. With advancement of technology, making something look picture perfect is as easy as a click of a button but that's all it'll ever be. Perfect only within a picture.
If meeting that same person in real life, their looks will falter your perspective if you tend to be that shallow. It's depressing how most of the time to make it big out there, looks is the first thing strangers will pay attention to. Looks pull you in and personality will soon pull you in closer but with photographs deceiving the audience, that went up to a whole new level. We cannot let photographs we see deceive you but I too have been tricked many times. I believe perfection comes a long way but why does it make it seem like as if natural beauty is hard to come by these days with the media "fixing" up a photo?
It is hard to come across natural beauty now exactly because the media is "fixing up photos". In magazines, almost every single photo is altered, even the ones of the "normal teenagers" who won some type of contest. When we see that even they're beautiful and don't even think about the possibility that they don't naturally look that way, it alters our own judgement on "natural beauty". Also, in television shows with teenage actors or people chosen for reality TV, they all look beautiful. We still don't even think about the possibility that they got a ton of makeup slapped on their faces, or that they had to lose a certain amount of weight before they could be on the show. So, basically, since watching television has become "natural" to almost everyone, the beautiful people on it will be classified as having "natural beauty". Natural beauty is now hard to come by because, unless you have your own Photoshop team to redo your face and body every second of the day,it barely exists.
ReplyDeleteVery good point! Whenever you meet someone you judge them by there looks, maybe some have stopped that habit, but I know that to this day people will judge a person by their looks, and that is really immature. Because of the industry we have a thought in our heads, that make us believe that we are supposed to be physically beautiful, but that isn't the right thing to make people believe.
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