the ugly desire for perfection
The horror of being perceived and why you hate photos of yourself
dazeddigital.com
Filterworld and its slick sameness can induce a breathtaking, near-debilitating sense of anxiety. The sameness feels inescapable, alienating even as it is marketed as desirable.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
It didn’t cross their minds, he’s sure, that it would start a race with Snapchat and others to see who could “provide better beautification filters”—and that this would, in turn, change how people thought of their own bodies so much that today there’s a whole category of people who undergo surgery so they can look more like their filters.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
The subversion of this ideal is driven by accusations that the standards imposed by the fashion and cosmetics industries are Eurocentric or patriarchal; doing away with those standards is therefore a political act of anti-racism or feminism. In a similar way, goblin mode can be seen as a revolt against the standards of productivity and self-betterm... See more