Modern society is ruled by a rigid self controlling id. It is characterised principally by an unquestioning belief in universality which has individuals negating the specificity of their own lives for some imagined ideal. When women begin to casually substitute their own breasts for balloons, you know that something is wrong. When skinny women think they are fat, there is really a big cultural problem. We all know from E-mail spams what might be worrying a lot of men. All that pumping up and down in gymnasiums suggests that eternal youth is actually imagined as a possibility by this generation! Political correctness is the cumbersome high-minded expression of this deluded state.

It is really a euphemism for self-imposed behaviour control.

It is really a faction of religious deviation and its creed has all the potential for an evolution into puritanical fanaticism.

It is really a form of self-flagellation for all that guilt over petty prejudices.

People can think what they like but it is worth asking where all this obsession with dimension and form comes from.

What role may art and architecture have played in this raising of false hopes that in all ways are always dashed in one form or another both for individuals and society?

All the depression and the trauma, what will save us?

Cinema and Television were intended to offer us little vignettes of life. In black and white it gave you the essence which your mind had to colour in. With the advent of colour, the filling in part became much more difficult and the necessary association with reality therefore got lost. With mind softened by the sheer power of the visual impact of colour, the illusory rather than essential aspects of the human drama dominates its reception. Some kind of subtle thought control is therefore taking place whether intended or not.