Capitalism exacerbates the desires to escape one's body through hedonistic entertainment that downplays reality’s importance and through the promotion of aesthetic mutilation. When social hierarchy features patterns in physical traits, those at the bottom heavily emphasize emulating attributes of those at the top in hopes to escape their caste.
Humans are so social that when one exists at the bottom of social and financial hierarchy, it is natural to find reasons or justification why they are deserving. Through the realm of the body— the one thing we are eternally stuck with and must endure, that we oftentimes place blame. It’s easy to blame something that excretes, holds unwanted memories, and inflicts pain.
We have developed such complex systems where most people are detached and simply cannot comprehend the extent of harm we perpetuate in order to ensure our own survival. It feels as if we are only reminded of this abstracted violence when we are on its receiving end. I wouldn’t define this as being inherently unnatural due to living as human beings as natural as living as any other animal, but we are led to believe this practice is unnatural as a way to detach ourselves from the natural practice of both being a victim and attacker. It is a horrible reality that I have confronted in myself that one must hurt in ways we are unaware of and be hurt in ways by people who are so disconnected to the violence they have caused it is impossible to make them understand the weight of their actions.
Maturing means being aware of the amount of violence you have, you can, and you will inflict on others both direct or indirectly. To survive one must take space, alter its surroundings, consume, and bear punishment to the secretions as a result.
This subconscious shame and awareness all of us hold is primed for social influence. Media in all of its forms help us alleviate this reality and give us the ability to exist without inflicting pain or pleasure. As previous societies have relied on a conditioned beauty to achieve an aesthetic barrier between those who lack and those who hold power, capitalism has extended extreme aesthetics to the lower classes in the lie that one can escape their caste through pure beauty alone.