The spectacle is the intangible state of human beings that turns into the tangible commodity (The Society as the Spectacle, ch. 2, #35) Everyone wants to be enough. Everyone wants to be loved and liked, and accepted into society. Those feelings of inadequacy commercialize in the form of commodities promising the intangible. Love, happiness, acceptance, lives in the spectacle "bubble", omnipresent but not obtainable like air until it becomes into a solid state; something you can touch or at least see.
An example of what has been produced from the spectacle is women buying body parts to look more desirable. Although women body modifications has been around for thousands of years, today it is possible to completely buy a new "you". For a few hundred thousand dollars, its possible to have new breast, a new nose, voluptuous lips, flat stomach, wrinkle free skin and recently most popular of them all - a huge ass.
Nikki Minaj, the biggest female rapper to hit the scene since the 90's has commercialized the big bootay. Minaj allegedly, went from all back to baby got back in a cut of a knife and a loan from her label head and superstar rapper friend, Lil Wayne.
Since Nikki has hit the scene with her enhanced butt, every one, male and female has become even more fascinated with the booty. Society has always created a picture of how women should look in order to be desirable. Unfortunately, plenty of women have fell victim to this ever changing ideal and with modern technology it has become possible to become "ascetically pleasing"- at a cost.
The commodity has changed our society from a society of people trying to survive into survival surplus( Debard, #40). After rent is paid and sometimes before, in the society of the spectacle, money is spent on unnecessary clothes, jewelry and monthly butt and Botox injections. Debard states the spectacle is a permanent opium war that will endlessly increase without reason (#44). Although his statement has proven to be true from the beginning of time, with the increase of education on self and expression the society of the spectacle may soon become the society of introspection.
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