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Advertising MADNESS!!!
07.23.04 (9:48 am)   [edit]


I hate television.
You watch 15-20 minutes of the program that you really want to see, and for the other 10-15 minutes, you are bombarded with hundreds of images and sounds. Your entire existance is filled with screaming announcers pitching the latest deodorant fragrance, clumping cat litter, a piece of cloth that miraculously picked up a cheesie, and pairs of jeans that apparantly have sex in a hamper. 30 second increments of assault flowing through our minds, polluting and implanting suggestions and thoughts. Conditioning our reactions and attitudes. And why do we subject ourselves to this? To catch that 20 minutes of programming which, in all honesty, is usually a complete waste of time in the first place. Television does nothing if not distract us from real life. IT DRIVES ME CRAZY AND I REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE!! If you want an amusing distraction, smoke a joint and go fishing. It's less harmful to your brain.

So, for the sake of keeping my daughter's mind reasonably clear, I don't have cable. The television is rarely on, and when it is, it is for a Disney movie. Control is the key word here. Take control yourself and your children or let society do the controlling for you. Think about it. Do you really think that healthy minds are the product of television? Once their impressionable little brains have been poked and stirred and then set on high to bake, the emergence of a twisted, misinformed, credit card carrying consumer, who is convinced that the latest and greatest is the way to go, is really no surprise. These are the people who believe that society wouldn't hurt them. These are the people, for whom the warning signs on irons caution to remove cloting BEFORE ironing, have been etched in products because they no longer have the need for common sense. Everything they will ever need to know, and don't need to know, is being subliminally fed directly into their minds!! Why think at all??

But advertisers don't stop at television, do they? No, not at all. They are everywhere. Billboards, magazines, park benches, taped to trees, in bathroom stalls, on cars and even before the previews when you go to see a movie, for God's sake. A MOVIE!!!. What the hell is up with that? I didn't pay $10.00 to watch a 5 minute ad for a Toyota!!! I can barely put up with the concession cartoons before the feature!

My pet peeve is the POPUPS!!! You can't even surf the flippin' internet without being bombarded by spyware ensuring that you know about the latest Jamaican cruise, or the miracle mop!! They blatantly lie to people to get them to click on their stupid ads, and it's wrong! Be sure you have good aim with that mouse pointer, because if you miss that little X and click on the ad, look out!

People should have the freedom to choose whether or not they want to subject themselves to this type of bullying. But they don't, and unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about it. Kinda makes you feel a little helpless, doesn't it? You can't even take a pee witout having a pile of ads forced mercilessly upon you.

How long do we have to put up with everyone in the world, sophisticated enough to use a keyboard, telling us what we should do or think or buy? Is it any wonder that some people just can't take it? Why are we so surprised when people just snap? People are being poisoned, and most are too trendy to even realize it. Creatures of comfort and convenience. Creatures of habit. Products of suggestion. This is society.

That's all.
 


posted by: Danette (reply)
post date: 07.23.04 (11:09 am)

Yah! Nice rant. I caved and got cable..strictly for the educational programs of course. ;) LOL one of the HR people at my old job came in with a burn on her neck which she got from ironing her clothes while she was wearing them.



posted by: SNEEVIL (reply)
post date: 07.23.04 (11:56 am)

Reply to: Danette

Hehehe...HR people are born that way, aren't they? Some people are just beyond saving.



posted by: McStinky (reply)
post date: 07.25.04 (11:20 pm)

we live in a society where people on a certain diet can eat all the bacon and beef and ham and whatever other kind of meat they want, whenever they want, but they can't eat an apple BECAUSE IT HAS CARBS!!! yes, people, the diet makes you lose weight. why? because YOU NEED CARBS TO SURVIVE!! you are killing your body, becoming emaciated to the point of death. the guy who wrote the atkins diet.......DIED!!! WHILE ON HIS OWN DIET!!! people are starving themselves skinny because some magazine or television show says that's what they have to look like in order to be sexy. and then they get facelift after facelift and buy mounds of wrinkle cream because society tells us that age and wisdom are no longer beautiful. in a TEEN MAGAZINE last spring, i saw a huge headline that said the next summer's hot new fashion was PLASTIC SURGERY. in a fucking teen magazine!!!! if society keeps moving in this direction, we won't have to invent any fucking androids, because we are going to be them. plastic, emaciated, brainwashed machines, never straying from the hive. i'm scared and depressed. barnacle butt gives me hope for the future, though. (o:



posted by: care (reply)
post date: 07.26.04 (12:57 pm)

Reply to: McStinky

Hey jen, you've crawled out of the woodwork now eh?...

my son was on a diet called the ketogenic diet... it was a low carbohydrate diet where the body stops burning sugars as energy, as they are no longer getting them, and start burning fats as energy... the product created from the fats burning, is called Ketones, hence the name... and for some odd reason, as with most epilepsy knowledge, no one knows why, but the production of ketones help curb seizures and in some instances rids them completely.

unfortunately, people are taking the 'diet' thing too seriously, ketone production for kids is alright but they are on a strict 4\5 ratio of carbs to fats diet and even ketchup has to be weighed to the .5 gram... adults are usually on a 2-3\5 ratio, because there is a better possibility for health risks.

I am wayyyy to familiar with what the body needs and requires from all the diets/dieticians and medical information... The diet in question, the atkins diet is only suppose to be for a short term, with excersize and attitude change. Personally I've kinda been on that diet for years with splurges of pasta every now and again... but there is also a diet called the hunters/gatherers diet, which is similar but very little starch if any at all... we have to look back historically and realize through basic evolution, that farming and grains have only been in our evolutionary chain for about 15,000 years... but our evolution has been a tad longer than that.... *G*

And Dr. Atkins died of a head injury at the age of 72.

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/lcd.html

its an interesting article... also, people today are not working hard enough on a day to day basis which in turn would burn off more calories... convieniences ya know!... compared to 100+ years ago when 3000 calories a day is a good meal and then out to the fields again! *G* and really... whats the point of all those friggin grains? limit that a bit to some good eatin food, not cheap junk you get while waiting in line at a store... and really start enjoying the taste of food... you really become picky and start eating better...

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