Meretricious standards

Other Names: Cheapening of values
Claim: "The beautiful life is being elevated into a new morality, namely into a 
standard which condemns those who fail to meet it into the rank of total failure. The problem is part of the ghastly superficiality that is bred by television commercials, glossy magazines and tabloid newspapers and typified by the expression "top model". It is the hope of looking like such people that impressionable girls refuse to eat and when the cure 
fails, despair and bulimia sets in."
== Branching ==
* Related: Nihilism; Debased values.
* Broader Problems: Lack of quality; Vacuous public values; Weakening of standards
* Narrower Problems: Unseemly public displays of affection; 
* Aggravates: Self-hatred; Immoral personal services
* Strategies: Establishing standards
* Values: Meretricious
* Problem Type: F: Fuzzy exceptional problems
* Etymology: Meretrix