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Standards are all around us. We
need them. They provide guidelines for everything that is
routine and recurring in our lives.
In BSOS, (Blank Slate Operating
System, which I will refer to as
BS in the future) standards are created that match
with what vendors, public relations, business, or even parents
want us to be.
For example: the idea of a
beautiful woman accompanies most cosmetic ads. It makes
sense, it's natural, it's aspirational, and it's inspiring.
Yet, the beautiful woman is often "made-up" using more than
the advertised cosmetics; photoshoped, and then "imaged" in a
way that portrays the "standard" that the company wants you to
achieve by using their products and services.
In reality, there is nothing wrong
with this: to put our best foot forward, to give the best
image to utilize the "best practices”.
Consequently, though, the sheer
nature of the standard is what I call a "composite.”
This means that no human exemplar exists like this
“composite”. Therefore, women see a beauty that can
never be attained. In reality, it doesn't exist except
as a set of "best practices or examples" that have been
created and emerge as a composite standard created by someone
who has taken license to wow and WOO us into submission or
commission.
Perhaps you may have seen the video
that shows an artist combining the best features of the top
100 most beautiful women in history to make the “ideal
beauty”.
What's wrong with this?
That is a question that I think I
don't have to answer, but I will!
In creating standards that
don't--in reality--exist with exemplars, we are fashioning a
consumption race that never ends; a grail that can never be
found; a search of infinite steps; and a journey ever to be
run.
It enslaves the perception of
people to continuously strive for the "composite" standard in
order to be "good enough" --> to reach BS's ultimate rung.
It yields the
ever-more-important...consumitariat --> a type of
person who sees their life in "comparison" to these composite
standards and judges whether they are good enough...only to
find themselves "wanting..." to consume to solve problems, to
consume to achieve happiness. As a result, success is
determined by those who created the composites, the best
practices, the aspirational inspiration.
Thus you have the perfect
inspiration, aspiration and exemplification of a fraud morally
created by "consorting with our ego" to remain in competition
with other egos for what is supposed to be good, right, true
and beautiful.
Therefore the rise of the
CORPORATE...the social organizing mechanism to take
the place of God(?), including the manipulation by
advertising, that we can
BE, DO, HAVE and BECOME ANYTHING we
can dream. We end up being guided by the proof of this
composite "reality”.
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