Name: 衰落中的文化｜第3集 "C.V.D. "作者：彼得-約瑟夫 (Culture in Decline | Episode #3 "C.V.D." by Peter Joseph)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:59:21.000Z
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Or wait, maybe not big enough? Is it time for a little butt cheek augmentation?

Or maybe a little liposuction to take away these love handles, at least;

and perhaps while I'm at it, a nice tummy tuck. That can't hurt to even it all out!

Since I'm a bit too lazy to work on these pecs,

Of course, I'll have to do something about this male-pattern baldness, right?

No, I don't know if I want to look all alert all the time.

Rather, I think I'm going to finish off with a plethora of Botox injections

that tighten up these wrinkles. You know Botox, that chemical neurotoxin

that temporarily paralyzes your nerves for the illusion of youthfulness?

that the last thing a fish would ever notice in its habitat is the water.

Likewise, the most obvious and powerful realities of our human culture

It is only when we take pause, often at the risk of social alienation,

to question the foundational principles and ideas to which our lives are oriented

does a dark truth about our supposed 'normality' become more clear.

Today, we live in an ocean with enormous waves of status obsession,

materialism, vanity, ego and consumerism.

not by our productive thoughts, social contributions and good will,

but by a superficial, delusional set of associations

where the very fabric of our society now radiates with cheap romanticisms

connected to vain competition, conspicuous consumption and neurotic addictions

often related to physical beauty, status and superficial wealth.

In effect, [it is] social conformity masquerading as individualism

with the virtues of balance, intelligence, peace, public health

and true creativity left to rot on the sidelines.

The cultural water we inhabit today runs deep with heavy pollution.

It starts in our formative years, where to be smart and achieving

with social praise instead relegated to those of accepted appearance,

reinforcing the idea that to think, know and challenge is to be ridiculed,

while to uphold the status quo, conform to the ideals imposed by society

At what point does that multi-billionaire with the 5 mansions

go from being a peak icon of culturally accepted success

to an example of a severe mental disorder

amounting to compulsive addiction, in fact, where the billionaire is revealed

as nothing more than a social abomination in disguise

by their decision to hoard such excessive levels of problem-solving wealth

for no other utility than mere ego status.

But then again, we can't be too hard on them, right?

For what they're doing is simply what they've been taught.

Just as the religions you believe or the gaming strategies you use for survival

are groomed and cultivated by the environmental condition of your existence,

so are the many other waves of influence in this

ocean of memes that comprise the zeitgeist of the time.

So maybe we should start to question what it is

we are actually trying to accomplish rather than complain

and look at the social normalities of progress and success as they exist.

I don't know about you, but I'm beginning to suspect

that the new commercial lifestyle that has been touted by economists

and historians as some marvel of human/social development

is actually a hidden form of retardation:

an unseen manifest-value distortion that is making us sick,

more and more malleable for the controlling factions of our society itself.

our modern cultural strives for so-called 'success' itself are in fact

A new disease has struck America, rapidly moving across the world:

a disease largely unknown in earlier periods

and almost entirely unnoticed by those who carry it,

a disease spread not by a physical virus or genetic predisposition

ideas which are in fact infecting minds, growing and mutating in various strains,

inhibiting the mental well-being of many.

It's called C.V.D., Consumption-Vanity Disorder.

It's a plague of modern society which not only pollutes

it is also turning our world into a cesspool of mini-malls

and self-image disorders, wasteful materialism

So, I've been working with these girls for a few years now.

is that many sub-strains or mutations have occurred.

These women here suffer from H.G.S. or Hot Girl Syndrome.

Would anyone like to introduce themselves?

I moved to Los Angeles a couple of years ago, and I...

I started noticing weird changes happening to my body

like my skirts started getting shorter and shorter, and...

I started spending more and more on cosmetics and heels and cheap jewelery,

and then the Botox injections started, and...

by the second or third buttock augmentation,

I was looping DVD reruns of America's next top model

dating one hot football star douchebag after the other and

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衰落中的文化｜第3集 "C.V.D. "作者：彼得-約瑟夫 (Culture in Decline | Episode #3 "C.V.D." by Peter Joseph)

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