Monday, April 21, 2008

Precedent Evil

No .... scrap the idea that the pun intended has something to do with an evil president!

During the past few years we have been bombarded with images of the living dead. Like in the mid-eighties being a zombie has become of age again. Numerous movies are appearing on (our home) cinema screens – Romero's Dead series, 28 weeks later, Saw saga and the soon to come Invasion of the not Quite Dead produced by the (in)famous Ken Russell. All reminding us of the good crappy stuff and gore. Games on the market take us to the horrific world of body parts - Resident Evil series (inclusive of all the marketing material) , Dead Rising and my personal favourite Silent Hill saga, glorifying the act of falling apart with green stuff oozing from every human cavity imaginable.

But, is this virtual reality a comment on the real world we are living in? The variety of cancerous growths and allergies to almost anything imaginable (hay fever, lactose intolerance) is impressive. Is this caused by the lack of clean environment we're living in? Is it the nicely presented and genetically modified food we are eating? Is it the daily stress we have to go through?

Have we become Marilyn Manson’s Beautiful People? Are we participating in a human disfiguring contest? Cronenberg in his film Crash states "The car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event”. Not only is this reality a shocking revelation but we are now commercialising the exchange of body parts and making it look as if it is a normal mundane necessity. This crude consumerist notion has become a conceivable reality as we sit through reality shows glorifying the transition from small boob to big boob. Oh how sexy the new plastic-you looks! Private hospitals have these operations on their menu a la carte. The medical treatments offered include face lifts, otoplasty (prominent ear correction), rhinoplasty (cosmetic nose reshaping), abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), liposuction, breast augmentation, breast reduction and other cosmetic interventions. You can now fly to Malta in order to have your cosmetic surgery done. Malta: the jewel of the Mediterranean for cosmetic surgery. That transformed acne-free face is now offering you peace of mind.


Should we start discussing the ethical consideration of all this? What I mean by ethical is not just the scientific morality but also the consumerist notion that seems to have tentacled its way into our society.

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