An old Rod Serling TV program from the Twilight Zone posed the scenario that a beautiful girl had to have surgery. I mean she was absolutely gorgeous; perfect features, perfect body. Any man today would tear down doors to get to her. Nevertheless, her parents insisted she have the surgery to change her face. Why? She was considered ugly because she didn't look like everyone else. Rod Serling was not only prescient, he was downright scary...it's as if it's a conspiracy to make the themes of many of his Twilight Zone shows come to pass. Do...do...do...do...do...do...do...do!
Not really. Anyone who lived during the time could prophesy that unseen hands in the Advertising Industry, Entertainment Industry and Big Pharma (yes, think Quiz Show and Geritol) would be conjuring up ways to make money by using Group Think to cattle prod American minds into buying product, ideas and concepts to allay their fears and fulfill their wants and needs. A fabulous way to create the necessity for beauty products, diet products, clothing, etc., was to blast an iconic look of physical beauty across the airwaves, one designed to be antithetical to what most real women look like. So what if the fascists did the same thing? Often the very people who would have been slaughtered in Fascist Germany opted for nose jobs, boob jobs, face lifts, lipo and fillers to look less like who they were! You have to respect Barbra Streisand for resisting such fascism and NOT getting her Jewish nose fixed.(A year ago I saw a plastic surgeon on TV; he commented that "everyone" Jewish on LI who was over 17 had gotten a nose job. A show guest quipped that she hadn't and his assessment wasn't accurate, at least where she was concerned.)
