The acting out of despair is displays of grief and rage. Grotesque displays of grief and rage are violence, murder, and suicide. But remember, capitalism must have losers. Extreme capitalism must have extreme losers. Their despair will be grotesque.
Teenagers are grotesquely prone to perceiving themselves as extreme losers.
Social ostracism is a threat to the teenager's sexual self-image. Just as economic ostracism is a threat to the worker's survival self-image. As the prize for succeeding becomes swollen to grotesque proportions, responses to the despair of those who perceive themselves, rightly or wrongly, as capitalism's losers will become more and more grotesque. Pamela Anderson is having her fake boobs removed. I can only tremble at the thought of how those orbs of saline, so worshiped by teenage boys and other sweaty participants in the capitalist sexual drama, how those spheres, as they fall away from the gaze of the capitalist media, as they plummet out of range of the camera, out of frame and out of fame and into oblivion, how their crashing at the bottom of the well of anonymity may shake the world.