Michael Gurstein wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wade tillett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 9:46 AM
> To: Nettime
> Subject: <nettime> my design me
>
> http://www.surgery.com/topics/body.html
>
> A computer generated golden metallic female body with unbelievable
> proportions is shown over the faded background of a keyboard. Clickable
> cyan boxes are shown over specific areas of the body with the following
> text:
>
> *Pick the area you would like to improve
[snip]
> a utopic persona based on a conglomeration of
> the best. We can no longer be compared to the naturally occurring body
> because we are no longer reliant on natural means for obtaining
> (maintaining) this body. Now this increased power and ability to change
> our body makes the body we live in a design of our own - choosing not to
> modify our body is just as much a design as modifying our body.
> Abstention is as much design as creation, if we have the ability to
> design. And we have always had the ability to design. We constantly
> design our selves - by eating (or not eating, also what we eat), by
> walking (or not walking), by reproducing (or not reproducing), by our
> actions (or non-actions).
[snip]
Something that "galls me" to no end: Our society
is obsessed with "perfect bodies" -- and I must say
that I find bodily imperfections abhorrent -- but that's
not where the point I wish to make here lies: Our society
is obsessed with perfect bodies, AND EVERYWHERE I GO, WHEN
I TRY TO "JUST SAY NO" TO FATTENING FOOD WHICH IS PROMISCUOUSLY
STUFFED UNDER MY NOSE, PEOPLE ACT LIKE I WAS BEING AT BEST
RUDE AND A "PARTY POOPER", IF NOT CHARACTER DISORDERED, etc.
If our society wants perfect bodies, why don't we start
by mobilizing all restaurants and food stores to push
*only* healthful foods, and to make buying a Cocal-Cola
at least as shady a deal as buying "coke"?
\brad mccormick
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Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
914.238.0788 / 27 Poillon Rd, Chappaqua NY 10514-3403 USA
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