It would be interesting to quantify somehow, how much exposure to propaganda aka media each of us has experienced, and how much each of us has absorbed as fact.

Even the article appears to be written by a person who has, due to exposure to media, adopted a comparison viewpoint, where, simply because an image became iconic, people were expected to live up to it.

Be yourself. Navigate your environment. Both are different than everyone elses.

Use quantifyable metrics for comparison, not photographs.