rich, pretty, smart, and masculine

after reading the "Mask You Linity" blog on Sal's page, I was led to the point that we all in some way, not only gender wise, feel pressure to live up to some sort of "self fulfillment". For males its the masculinity concept, and for girls its the looks and clothes. Some girls also feel the pressure to seem tough and some guys also feel the need to dress fashionably. So many of us are consumed with being or looking richest, the smartest, etc. It makes me wonder if our own personal goals are ours, or if we've been so completely molded by our environment and society that our goals are what they are because we think thats what we have to fulfill. And as people, a society, and a nation i feel that we're so far deep into this epidemic of lack of actual self fulfillment that we've weaved ourselves into a huge mess of a web. (this isn't meant to be depressing!)