I think it’s unrealistic to say that you can “stop the madness”
It’s coming more from an extreme level of materialism and perhaps even emptiness cuz presentation has become the main focus not a person’s humaness. We are a presentation based society and the more we become about spending money the more society becomes about appearances and all humanity fades away. We are like the elite of the past with all the social rules and lack of humanity. The problem with such a lifestyle is that we all become ivory tower folks, so disconnected from reality we lose focus of what _is_ important and anyone that doesn’t measure up to our materialistic standards become further and further away from the norm making normal people feel dehumanized by the standards. Looks, prestige, money has even become the yardstick of who we date, and who gets a date and who gets married. It’s a sick rot rotting our bones. Harming the little guy and scorning the people who can’t measure up. It’s an illness. And it’s very sad. I don’t personally think presentation is a bad thing. Dressing up is great always looking good is amazing. But this isn’t just dressing the part this is becoming a sickness of emptiness and scorn
