is image everything?

Question

i have to write a debate so i need to know if image is everything i am against the motion

Answer 1

I think it is, especially in this day and age. It's like you're not successful unless you weigh 0.2 stones and have a dress size of -12.

Answer 2

BIRT image is everything.
You definitely drew the easier side. You can argue that image, while it may be important, can never be everything. A politician may have an image carefully cultivated to win an election and then do something stupid that totally negates that image.

You can't read a book by it's cover. Many people will look at the way that a person presents themself, whether it be the way they speak, to what they speak, whether it be the way they dress or the hair style they choose, but will not know the person until they look at the totality of their actions which demonstrate their person. If someone were to see Einstein before he became a media personality, would you expect this disheveled, scruffy looking person to be brilliant? Probably not. Maybe the town drunk.

The only case to be made for image is that of talentless celebrity, like Paris Hilton. And that surely proves that when image is everything it is evidence of absolutely NOTHING.

Peace

Answer 3

How you see yourself is important, not just visibly, but internally as well.
Ask a blind person how he views the world, other people.

They can see the most. They know is some one is condescending to them or mean. They know if people are being honest, or not.

Ask a dog, They don't care how you look, what you do for a crust, they only care if you are good to them. Isn't that worth more than all the riches in the world.

If you go into a shop and they are rude, would you go back, even if it were the best shop in town, is would not survive.

We have a snooty dress shop here, I'm surprised it is still in business.
No what is important is how you treat one another.

Answer 4

I think this is more of an age issue - if you're over 40 then no, image isn't everything and I think older people are more 'savvy' at knowing what is being forced on them. For younger people, however, they are growing up in a world of branding and 'designer' goods. So they want 'designer' this and that, ignoring better-made or cheaper quality goods. Branding is everything. Or 'designer' and it has to be a known designer. Now this is clever marketing on the part of the designer to promote them as a lifestyle to which younger people aspire to belong or to copy. And as all of this is in order to part people from their money then designers will find more things to spend your money on, to emulate them. So younger people have to have the 'look' which changes with every new fashion or pop icon, and to change their wardrobe twice a year to keep up with the current look. With the lack of self-confidence that is part of being young, then they wish to be accepted by their peer group and 'belong' - hence the identikit teenagers that you see on every street corner.
Today's young society is about the look, the brand, the name - and that's all part of the image. So, yes, image IS everything if you're under 40 ... older than that, and common sense kicks in and your priorities are the content and substance behind the image!
Hope my little philosophical discourse helps!-

Answer 5

unfortunately it is.
short story. a personal experience.

some years ago i moved to a new area. shortly after the move i got food poisoning and was looking well rough. so i dragged myself out to the local surgery. i looked so bad that they refused to register me saying that the surgery was too full already (i probably looked like a druggie).
a couple of weeks later and i had fully recovered. i returned to the surgery on my way home from work, this time clean shaven and wearing a suit and tie, polished shoes etc. i said nothing about my previous visit, just asked to register with a doctor, and; yes you've guessed it, they had a place for me then.

for sure image is everything, but it can all too often hide the person inside...
" a wolf in sheep's clothing".
" mutton dressed as lamb".
" boring accounts clerk posing as gangster", (in my case)
I'm positive there are many such sayings.
this is one area of " is image everything?" that shouldn't be overlooked in your debate. you are against the motion as i'm sure many are too.
it shouldn't be this way, but it is...

Answer 6

Image is not the everything but everything is image,
of its real self and reality.
Our real self and reality is not meant for this world but for the next world, hereafter.
An image is an abstract form of a real slide inside the projector.
So that that real slide of everything individually will be active in hereafter only, as this world is just a test run of the real selves, still in the hands of Ultimate Creator, God.

Answer 7

define 'everything'

definately, in today's society, only the 'most beautiful' people are seen as successful and wealthy and like they have it all... look closer and you'll find that a lot of them are missing things in one way or another.. (for example the numbers who give in to drugs along the way)... Celebrities have no security in their career or in their relationships.. they are secure in that they have money, however if this was all they wanted they'd give up the career when they get it... most are in it for the acceptance.. whilst the image is there, they are accepted, when it fades, they fade.. or desperately try to restore it with surgery, sometimes to disasterous results. So overall the image doesn't give the individual everything they need in life, many are insecure.

Answer 8

The sociologist Giovanni Sartori said even that we are approaching a new period: that of the "Homo videns", replacing the Homo sapiens, since we are getting more and more dependent on images, television, first impressions, etc. Google his name and homo vdens, this could be a nice reference for your debate.

Answer 9

Image is Nothing.
Thirst is Everything.
Drink Sprite.

Answer 10

I think it depends on your chosen profession, but it the long run your image can't carry you very far if there's nothing else to support it.