Reading harold_maude's journal

This morning I was reading articles in a magazine called "Adbusters".
All of what I read, was well written, concise, and very intense.
And very "in your face".

The ads that were shown had the advertizing stripped away and comments about different things. Every single one made me think about what most ad's make me think of while I'm looking at other magazines.

That we are viewed as wallets with legs. That youth is all there is, and that we spend millions of dollars each year for crap we don't need.

It was, to say the least, over whelming to read things that stripped away all the pretty and all the glamor and all the glitz and just say what's really going on.

There was this one, a little girl standing there in some designer outfit talking about how she throws a temper tantum and uses guilt to get her father to buy her anything she wants.
She must have been all of 10.

That's a big secret of the advertising world when selling things to kids, who are the next generation of major money holders in this country.

There have been studies done on kids for years and armed with the knowldge of how the effective way that making a toy look and seem so exciting and fun will make the average child who watches lots of t.v. do anything to get their parents to buy it for them, are well on the way to shaping the next generation into very controllable and very pliant people.

There is an illusion that is played upon, that if we own this or that, we are the best, the most unique and everyone will want to be us.
The reality of that illusion is that we spend so much of our lives our money and what ever else we give up on desperatly trying to live that illusion.

And while we are slowly and systematicly being stripped of all that makes us who we are, those who control things are sitting back pulling the strings.

I figure by the time that people begin to fully realize what's been going on for a very long time, they will be too weak willed to fight back.

Every article, every picture in that magazine was in my face, screaming for people to wake up.
I had to put it down and walk away after a while. It was all so well written, all so take the blinders off and knock your socks off and all so depressing.

I ended up feeling very helpless. And in a state of reaffermation that my convictions about corporate america and all it's ties to so many people, places, and goverments are so full of things that are going on, that if a 10th of what they were really doing was exposed, anarchy would break out.
And so would total chaos.

...but maybe if it did, then there wouldn't be so much want disguised as need being shoved down our throats.

It only looks that way because your standing on your head.