Take me over, Make me over
Fake me over
Fake me over
It's amazing to consider how many different ways people today are willing to let "experts" come to their rescue and re-vamp various aspects of their lives. This isn't new, but the extent to which this is ongoing and pervasive certainly speaks to our expressive and extensive need to be a part and parcel of the action- or a form of the functionality of the world around us, so to speak. If that's not clear, maybe Marshall McLuhan's aphorism "the medium is the message" speaks most lucidly and pertinently to today's makeover culture, where cars, homes, relations, lives and our corporeal selves are subjected to the media's gaze, as all these become objects of today's Makeover Culture, seen on screen:
The Medium is the Message, so what is it saying about how we conceive of, receive and perceive our real, social and ideal selves, lives and worlds today?
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