The very last thing they are concerned about is choice. Each advertiser bids the reader to buy its product and no one else's. The ideal, at least for the moment, is fixed and formulated by fashion. Authentic personality is not a marketable commodity. Choice is an illusion.
Fashion is an imperative.
He points out that he was adopted and is grateful that his birth mother gave him a chance at life. Now if Chris could only leaven his philosophy with the Golden Rule, he would be pro-life for everyone. This would be the only consistent tribute he could pay to his birth mother. If Glamour readers are glad to be alive and shod by Gucci and made fragrant by Ginvenchy, they should all be pro-life, not only for themselves, but for everyone else. Dr. DeMarco is a professor of philosophy at St. Jerome's University in Waterloo, Ont.