Random Thoughts: could americans really be this shallow?

i was listening to limbaugh today and he made the most astounding observation about the presidential campaign:

Does Our Looks-Obsessed Culture Want to Stare at an Aging Woman?

when i heard it, i was like "oh, man, this is sooooo wrong! but, it's really not...

"...but for the rest of you, I want you to understand that I am talking about the evolution of American culture here, and not so much Mrs. Clinton. It could be anybody, and it is really not very complicated. Americans are addicted to physical perfection, thanks to Hollywood and thanks to television. We know it because we see it. We see everybody and their uncle in gyms. We see people starving themselves. We see people taking every miracle fad drug there is to lose weight. We see guys trying to get six-pack abs. We have women starving themselves trying to get into size zero and size one clothes; makeovers, facials, plastic surgery, everybody in the world does Botox, and this affects men, too..."

i was thinking about this, and thinking about how pervasive the advertising is for stuff like viagra, and i think he may be onto something. Americans are becoming obsessed with physical appearance and sexual virility. obesity is being featured all the time on the network news/MSM as 'america's problem'...all the while being fully conscious of young girls looking like they are wasting away...