Ironic Culture of Fakeness

‘Back in the day’ when someone had tanned skin it meant they spent time outdoors. They were probably physically active, healthy, and vigorous. Those attributes were automatically assumed if a person had tanned skin.

Now when you see someone with perfectly tanned skin it means they can lay under a bright light at a tanning salon.

Attributes of physical activity, health, and vigor are desirable. Many of us want people to think we have those attributes. Hence the invention of the tanning salon.

Ironically laying under a bright light doing absolutely nothing is the opposite of physical activity, health, and vigor. Yet we hope that people will still think of us in those terms.