Reply #26: Self Esteem

[undergroundpanther]

and beauty and a person's worthiness of love has been so manipulated in this profit ruled,power obsessed,country.Our desires and aversions are so manipulated from cradle to grave,so marketed,so conditioned I find most people cannot tell what they THEMSELVES like,they only know and accept what they think *should* like or are *supposed* to like.

This is why everyone in this nation strives to look so much alike and why standards of beauty are so uniform.
Go outside our culture I mean totally outside it and what is beautiful changes based in how the people in THAT culture are are manipulated from cradle to grave in the way thier culture defines these'standards'.

What I wanna know is who or what is the fool manipulating desire,emotions and belonging to the point of making up all these measuring sticks"standards" "norms" that too many people compete to measure up to? And feel so"priveleged" if the measure up to? Or treated as outcast if they don't measure up to it? Who invented this game and isn't it time to stop being ruled by it?