Does the epic The Rape of the Lock apply in any way to society today? What are two passages in The Rape of the Lock that could serve as satiric commentaries on people's behavior today?

In The Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes human vanity and specifically the fashionable upper-class English society of his own time. At the start of canto II he describes his heroine, Belinda, in words which, with a few adjustments, would apply to any number of celebrities at a "red carpet" event of our own time:

Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike,
And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride,
Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide.

Later, at the climax of the action in canto V, Pope has another woman, Clarissa (who has helped to facilitate the snipping off of Belinda's lock of hair) question this credo by which physical charms are held in esteem above all else:

"Say, why are beauties praised and honored most,
The wise man's passion, and the vain man's toast?
Why decked with all that land and sea afford,
Why angels called, and angel-like adored?"

It is a feminist message. As in our time, however, the two conflicting messages seem to be reconciled by Pope. Today, we see no contradiction between the gender equality that feminism represents and the fact of independent women being admired for their beauty as well as other qualities. At the close of his mock epic, Pope makes the point that although beauty takes different forms in the eye of the beholder, the simple fact of its being celebrated (by a writer such as himself, or by anyone) is what gives it lasting significance and makes it endure:

This lock, the Muse shall consecrate to fame,
And midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name.