Plastic Surgery

The plastic surgery has become a multi million dollar one, as both men and
women employ more and more extreme tools in order to reach the ever more
ubiquitous image of perfection that torments us. It sometimes seems as
though the tiny people of Hollywood have been constructed entirely out of
plastic in a conspiracy to make the rest of us feel like ogres. And in a
world where beauty is a highly rated currency, it is little wonder that
many of us succumb.
And while plastic surgery is not a bad thing in and of itself, it is still
an invasive procedure as dangerous as any other type of surgery, and
should not be undertaken lightly. But if the growing number of people who
choose surgery every year is anything to go by, then surgery is becoming
the quick fix of the masses.
But if anything needs fixing, surely it is a society where people undergo
risky surgery in order to feel okay about themselves. We pride ourselves
on the advancements we make as a society every moment, and while
attractiveness has historically always been of value, is it not now time
that we rebel against the status of beauty as the primary currency in our
society? But beauty is more powerful that ever, and combined with our
enormous technological knowledge, we are at a point when we have the tools
to look almost exactly as we wish.
Perhaps the world of ‘The Stepford Wives’ is really not so very far away.
As people make appointments daily for surgery that will make them look
like someone else, we are at risk of losing our individuality to a cult
that simply wants us all the same. They say that beauty is in the eye of
the beholder, but it seems that as time progresses, we are all beginning
to see through one blighted eye. What will we do once we are all finally
beautiful? Perhaps then we will begin to look a little deeper. Or perhaps
we our notion of beauty will change, as it has done countless time through
history, and we will all be left to start from scratch again.