Human Ken Doll: the cult of the young body, and judging by appearances
by Archbishop Cranmer:
“I don’t watch big brother, I don’t know this fella…,” tweeted journalist, TV presenter and poet Stephen Dixon. “But a world that allows someone to do this to themselves instead of getting some serious help, and then makes them a celebrity figure, is so badly flawed.”
“What’s the alternative?” demanded actor, puppeteer and presenter Mike Smith. “A world that stops you doing what you want to yourself?”
“I think the alternative is a world where people don’t feel the need to be perfect,” answered Stephen Dixon, as the thread swelled into terse dialogues about the meaning of celebrity, the limits of positive freedom, and the ethics of cosmetic surgery.
”That’s rather judgemental Stephen,” judged Johnny L
“It’s not judgemental at all,” rebutted Stephen Dixon. “I’m not criticising him. Read it again.”
“Its rather a need by many to hear and be able to understand what it means,” interjected Knut Flottorp (who knows Kant and Kierkegaard), “‘I love you’ and ‘you have a special place’ and ‘I care’. This place is a cold spot without love and care and people that worry. With the words it’s a wonderful place!”
But nobody knew what Knud was talking about, so nobody pursued that particular invitation to dialogue.
“The cult of the young body, the veneration of the air brushed, media produced body, conceals a hatred of real bodies,” explained Dave Valente. “Cultural practice expresses aversion to the body,” he expanded, quoting Beth Feller Jones of Wheaton College. And then we get the descent into abuse: “Plastic man”; “a cross between Tsaikovski (sic) and pete burns”; “Looks like a bloody mannequin”; “a freak”; “looking like Dr Ninestein from terrahawks”; “Fake”…
…”And ‘Love Island’ is ‘aspirational’, according to ITV”:
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