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A Divine Image - Cruelty has a human heart- And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine- And Secrecy the human dress., At any cost, Broken, F-F-Fix Me., I don't see who I'm trying to be instead of me, Paint me Pretty, Tell me I'm beautiful
Esme's Cloud 
Great video. I’ve never seen it before. It’s rather telling about what our society regards as true beauty. Thanks for sharing.
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Happy to share it with you, it’s so well executed, and quite heartbreaking in a way.
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“…and quite heartbreaking in a way.” I agree. I feel bad for those older actresses who have had so much cosmetic surgery and so many Botox injections that any resemblance to what they used to look like — and in some cases to anything naturally human — has been lost.
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They have become blind to the beauty that comes with such things as laughter lines – no matter how many of which there be – they are always so much more beautiful than expressionless, bland faces. They are erasing their characters bit by bit.
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Reblogged this on Mindful Digressions and commented:
I don’t often reblog others’ posts, but Somni Cloud posted this today (inspired by a post of mine, I might add) and I thought this video is so good and so reflective of the lengths we go to in today’s society to achieve beauty. It’s definitely worth the few minutes it takes to watch it.
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Sorry, I spelled your blog’s name incorrectly when I first reblogged your post, but I have since corrected it to Sonmi’s Cloud. Forgive me!
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That ‘thing’ came from a box…
“This video could very well be from one of those ‘possible futures’ I mentioned in a post I made once. It’s not one (future) I would imagine, but could very well be guilty of bringing it about unwittingly.”
Anyway, I liked it (as you can verify above), thanks for posting.
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I feel a tad sorry for her, being called a ‘thing’, though technically any one of us could be. And in any possible future she may well be descended from one such as us. But enough chiding, I’m sure you get that non-stop from Darth Cheetoh. The box, yes, I noted that, and the resemblance to ‘the box’ which I shall speak of no more here. That is the disturbing part for sure. And you are most welcome President and Founder, I’m pleased you liked it smiles.
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I don’t know. Y’all see far more in it than I. All I can make of it is some abstract version of Humpty Dumpty and Jack in the Box reaching, grasping, and lusting for the temptations of modern society and the tyranny of technology that not only holds attainment of self-gratification at bay, but that also has not the means to put a shattering disillusionment back together again, that or a cheap lipstick commercial.
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I thought it a visually stunning representation of how society and the media conspire to have women aspire to become that which they are convinced is…visually stunning – not to your average Joe and Josephine, but by said fodder-mongers, (especially through the TV screen represented perfectly in the film), which results in greater and greater striving, at any cost, until in some cases, it is fatal. It kills. This is where anorexia comes into play, where young girls hang themselves for being deemed too ugly and/or fat, where people become so addicted to the propaganda they are bombarded with like evil slurry that it is, that it psychologically damages them to the extent that they no longer see anything in the mirror anymore but ugly monsters looking back at them.
So yes, I see a little more. And perhaps being a woman has enabled me to.
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Touché.
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I didn’t intend to sound….patronising, or to put your interpretation down. It’s a perfectly valid one, I just wanted to clear up the idea I was glorifying something quite vacuous.
Touché turtle smiles
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It brought the beginnings of tears to my eyes quite swiftly. I didn’t feel I wanted to interpret it for meaning so much, just feel the painful and poignant yearning, perhaps the futility in that yearning too. Brilliant execution.
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Yes, it really is quite moving isn’t it Hariod? Thank you for popping back and taking this post in from way back when, as videoes go there’s no ‘sell by’ date upon this one, for it does stand the test of time.
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