The soldier and I also watched, In Search of History: The Catacombs of Rome
this weekend. It’s sort perfect for all the planets in Pisces and Saturn Pluto square.
The program was interesting and evocative but what most caught my attention was the attractiveness of the people in the paintings. I was taken with their physical beauty and I just wonder when we as a culture are going to stop mutilating our bodies.
It seems an affront to nature and I wonder how we lost this ground 2000 years later to where we have to cut our faces, blow up our lips, etc.
Why can’t we be satisfied?
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I think my husband is right. The current surgery is a fad like when Chinese women bound their feet or African women put rings around their necks or some of those tribes stretched their earlobes. It is not actually an improvement, it just seems that way for as long as the fad lasts.
Yep, I agree with that. But I think the fad STARTS as a desire for something different. We can’t be satisfied with what we have naturally because of the evolution process.
I can’t speak for other cultures or other times but I think women in this country have been sold a bill of goods and will catch on eventually.
The popularity of surgery has come up in my lifetime and I think I will see it go down as well, if I live another 5-15 years.
I wonder if it comes down to advance mating rituals. We no longer live primitively, so the things men and women do to “attract” mates has drastically become more and more ridiculous?
I think it is a “youth-obsessed” thing, but then it gets weird, since women 40 plus now are supposedly “hot”, (cougars), but women are still cutting up their face to look “young”. If they are hot because of their age, why are they still trying to look another age?
“Why can’t we be satisfied?”
I think that’s part of the human condition, to aspire to more than what *is*. Another way to look at it: if Roman’s weren’t “satisfied” with bare catacombs, we wouldn’t have that ancient art.
As to cosmetic surgery… I’m satisfied with what I can achieve with my body naturally, and good luck to anyone who isn’t.
luci, I agree somewhat, but I also think that we humans are competitive and that’s why we do it. It’s that inner Mars nature (astrologically speaking) that needs it!
what unnerves me is how permanent it is… and it distorts the body in weird ways. the human body is a complex interconnected machine, and you start messing around with it for vanity and you throw all kinds of systems out of whack.
that, and, wow, botox zombies…. scary
i like playing around with my hair, and makeup, and clothes. but, at the end of the day, i have the same slate i started with. and if i want to lose weight, the healthiest, safest way is also the most natural one…
Amen!
I’m sorry, but people these days have so much surgery done, they’re starting to resemble the Joker. Regardless of how much or how little they’re plopping down, they have frozen faces!
(Don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about, here.)
They’re trying to make up for the lack of any substance inside. When you’re young you have nothing really but the physical. As you grow older and live a life the idea is that you develop character and wisdom from your experiences, and this lights you up from inside.
So a person gets to fifty and realises that they have built nothing inside. What can they do to be attractive? They have to resort to trying to fix what they should be leaving behind.
I agree with Dorothy–and I always thought fear of mortality had something to do with it. I’ve heard it’s a Pluto in Leo thing, the way weird celebrity journalism is a Pluto in Sag thing.
I’d rather, when a man touches my imperfect nipples, I squeel with delight than have no idea where his hands are on my perfect body.
Young people, nowadays, have oodles of surgery done as well. As in WAY more often than they should to resemble whatever the heck they want to resemble.
There’s no start-up age for plastic surgery anymore. You can be young, middle-aged or straight-up old. You can be beautiful without it, and not think you’re beautiful enough and go for it.
Kinda disagree with Opal’s notion of young people only having looks going for them. No offense, just disagree. Many young people in the world grow up very quickly.
Give me your substance-lacking young people, and I’ll give you my substance-lacking old people. We’re even in that department 
.
I think that our culture has been brainwashed by a constant barrage of subliminal messages in the media beauty and youth are to be coveted at all costs. They say that thumbing through fashions magazines makes womem feel depressed.
Older people get the short end of it. In other cultures, wrinkles = wisdom and are revered for their knowlege and experience.
And what about all the stages a person goes through in life that add character and grace.
Once past the age of 40 or so, the instinctive need to be attractive in order to produce offspring diminishes, and it’s time (or should be time) to cultivate other undiscoverd or undevelped aspects. And have a knowing that beauty comes from within. You know how you can see someone in their 70′s and 80′s that are just so vibrant and alive, that they just look beautiful, sans the surgery.
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