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The New MacBook

April 27, 2014
By ANOSMAN053 BRONZE, Cary, North Carolina
ANOSMAN053 BRONZE, Cary, North Carolina
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"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" - Albert Einstein


Hello, I am Tim Cook, C.E.O. of Apple Incorporated. Allow me to introduce the new MacBook Anorexia. Slimmer than the MacBook Air, the MacBook Anorexia serves not only to instill anxiety in fearful owners, due to its unnecessary fragility, but also to impart the idea that beauty is measured by thinness and that the ideal image of physique is to be fatally thin. A signet of society’s newfound obsession with physical “fitness”, the MacBook Anorexia reminds us that the goal of being “fit” is not to be healthy or lean, but to be a skeleton. Furthermore, this new addition to the Apple Family carries little to no practical improvement when compared with its predecessors; it’s just a lot thinner. Buy now so you too can feel horrible about your physical shortcomings and begin fulfilling that new slender image you want with the company of your new MacBook Anorexia.


The author's comments:
This piece is an alternate approach to the self-image controversy in American society, similar to Dove's beauty campaign. Instead of models, however, I used electronic devices as I noticed a linear pattern between the newer products and their progressively diminishing size--to the point where such slenderness was no longer convenient . I wanted to send the message that America's obsession with fitness and health, as the nation struggles to defeat the obesity issues in the country, is being misinterpreted to the point where disorders such as Bulimia and Anorexia are at an all time high, hence the name "the MacBook Anorexia."

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