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Yeah, agreed. Like, if you want to set goals for yourself and then try to reach those goals, hten set further goals? Sure cool go for it. Striving for mastery is fun. But then it turns in to, like, a keeping up with the joneses, I have to constantly be pushing the edge to be better or just keep up with other people to feel like I have worth, that's just so bad. Like how eating disorders and body dysmorphia have skyrocketed among young men over the last two decades as the kind of rigid body image beauty standard marketing that's been aimed at women for a century was shifted to exploit a new market; young men anxious about their bodies. And now we've got kids in highschool doing steroids. : p
I remember reading something like, that without the constant marketing driving the idea that normal people had to be unreasonably beautiful or there was something wrong with them, Soviets had a much more relaxed body image standard than westerners at the time. Like there were beuautiful actors and dancers and models and so forth, but people would say something like "well, it's that person's job to be beautiful. And I can just enjoy their beauty without feeling coerced to look like them because it's not my job and it's not expected of me."
Idk if it's true or If I'm remembering it right but it struck me as so different from the way standards of beauty and physical performance are enforced in the anglosphere now.