I could go on all day about things people do that they shouldn't. I can do that because the world we live in is so far from being any kind of ideal, that it's falling apart around us and we're doing practically nothing to stop it.

Happy days.

Are you sure you're not my brother in disguise? He's been a bartender and everything too.

If I were, do you think I would admit as much on here?

Stop it! That's what he would say!

I grew up in a community that hailed "the top half percent of wealth in the nation." I swear to God that this quote was thrown around like a "Hi, how are you?" greeting throughout my youth.

When I reached high school, the girls had been trained to be beautiful for most their lives. Smarts and personality meant absolutely nothing to the mothers, the fathers, the boyfriends, the teachers of these daughters. Looks ranked the females. Friends amongst the girly cliques were made based on attractive criteria.

When I saw my girlfriends and peers begin to sprout up on the weekends with newly defined noses, restructured jaws, a dab of saline to the bosoms, I became aware. Finally convinced that Suzy did need that nose job, because she is so fuckable now. We live in a society that rewards good plastic surgery. We live in a society where money can make you beautiful and I'm not ashamed of that. It's what the world has come to. Accept it. Or crawl up in a hole and give up. This is what we've created. There is no hiding from it.

Adam, Naomi Woolf is on her way over now. Btw, did that op you had resolve the chippolata situation?

Adele

Hahahaha, Adele!

I actually don't think things will stay that way, Silver, so I don't accept it. What you're accepting is people buying into a myth. I think more and more people are realising that they've spent a shitload of money on things they thought would make them happier and it didn't work.

Here's a good quote: 'Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like' (it's by Will Rogers, apparently - but I don't know who the hell he is).

Generally, there are already signs of attitudes shifting away from this.

Cath