I believe that in today’s society the “Symbolic Universe” is the false idea of beauty presented in the media today. In today’s society there is an unrealistic strive to be as beautiful as the people in magazines and media. A lot of these unrealistic images are due to advertising: sex sells using these false images as a way to sell their products. This false idea is also present in other media such as film and television. Giving people the idea that too be successful one must look like this, and that these people are the one true definition of beauty. Folke Kihlstedt’s definition in Utopia Realized (Kihlstedt, 1986) was a good beneficial place. In this case then beneficial place is too look like the people in the media. They are the ideal idea of beauty, the perfect or Utopian idea of beauty. Just as other perfect Utopian ideas, this false beauty is unreachable and false. This “Symbolic Universe” is very present in todays society, and is one that has hard a large effect and influence through the media we use today.
Kihlstedt, F. (1986). Utopia Realized: The World’s Fairs of the 1930s
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