RE: Accept yourself, Judge others
Do I accept it? Sadly so I guess....
How ludicrous is it to think that you can change a system that makes a massive amount of money from playing both sides.
It's completely ludicrous, and that's because we know nothing else. From the early stages in life we get completely brainwashed by advertisements. Young children watch TV and get overwhelmed by all the ads about toys, dolls, the newest technology etc etc. Our society is a consumption-society and it's almost impossible to remove yourself from that paradigm. Same thing happens with how we view the ideal man or female. The media gives us the truth and we act accordingly.
Trying to get away from that mentality is in my opinion almost impossible. It's like the guy from "Into the Wild" who wants to escape from everything he's ever known and wants to start all over again, take a dive in the unknown. But what does that look like when you talk, in this example, about a beauty ideal? Where are you gonna find a new definition? Can you really make up your own ideal when you've been indoctrinated by society-driven thought for your whole life? I don't think that's possible...
I think it is except the problem is that most just replace one ideal with another.
Yea, that's something I didn't even think about yet. But maybe the premise stays the same: it's almost impossible to free your mind from all the influences it has encountered throughout life. Maybe meditation is the only way to get as close to yourself as possible, but I don't know enough about that yet. It might be something worth looking into and experimenting with for me personally though.