I was reading an article about the
family who took out the thirty-six million Big Wedneday win in last Saturday's paper. The article was asking whether having a cookie jar stuffed with unlimited supply of cash would buy happiness, or not.
It went on to talk about Paradise Syndrome - a new(unofficial) disorder that befalls those poor
feckers who have everything - except happiness (Desperate Housewives - oh but, that's right, they're
not real). The article goes on to say that Paradise Syndrome may explain the obsession for cosmetic surgery. And this is the part that
really got me.
I quote:
'In the United States some commentators are labelling the booming cosmetic surgery a national epidemic. Driven by economic greed and insecure clients it has become the wild frontier of human excess.
In her tell-all tome
Beauty Junkies:Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery, Alex
Kuczynski, herself a 10-year nip-and-tuck junkie, lifts the skin-fold on the mad quest for perfect.
Her account of the compulsive activities of one Hollywood housewife fleshes out the scale of the obsession. The woman's routine entailed two trips to the hairdresser each week, a once-a-week facial and full-body waxing, regular tanning sessions, manicures plus teeth cleaning
(what? you can't do it yourself ?)and whitening. Body and face were caked in expensive creams made from caviar, 24-carat gold, human growth hormone or wild yam extract.
Tennis,
pilates and a personal trainer kept her body toned. She average three sessions a year under the plastic surgeon's knife as well as injections with Gore-Tex
(I thought you wore that to keep the rain out?) Botox and
Artecoll. She has had liposuction and a series of breast augmentations.
She is, says
Kuczynski, considered pretty normal amongst her peers.'
Even with an unlimited supply of cash I could only be arsed to doing ten percent of that woman's routine. And all laziness aside, I wouldn't
want to do most of that stuff to my body and it sure-as-shit wouldn't make me happy.
Call me a hillbilly, but in my world it's just more evidence to prove the theory that the higher we evolve, the more stupid we seem to become.
