Damn it...I know companies and advertising people have the pure and simple goal of making things appeal to us, making us want and need things...but come on! "Hey let's make alchohol more appealing!" Let's make this diet pill convince weak minded people that it will not only cause them to lose weight, but, it'll make your hair, skin, and nails healthier! Please! Now of course I mean nothing offensive by refering to us as "weak minded people," but let's face it, a lot of us are. Commericals play to our weaknesses, appeal to our vanity. I know none of this is new, and I know I'm not the only one outraged by these types of things. I'm a huge fan of the "truth" commercials. Hell I know a ton of people realize and know the risks of smoking and drinking, and all those other nasties that are out there...I also know it's incrediby difficult to quit anything like this...that's where advertisers have it even easier...they don't have to do much convincing with products that we're all hooked on anyway.
There are kids out there who know more than I do, not only is that sad and embarassing, it's outragously unnecessary. I'm all for educating kids so they know what not to do, and repeating "don't smoke, don't do this or that" cause yeah, I didn't listen, but I did. I watched my grandma died from lung cancer years after she quit smoking...too late. A lot of people have died because of his or her addiction(s)...we are so fucking ourselves over. We know, but we can't stop.
Gah! And now I act as if advertisers and big companies aren't human too...they're doing what they need to do to survive. They're playing on their own weaknesses too, they know what works cause they are us and we are them...ugh...I exhaust myself!
I dunno, sorry for the outburst...might not happen again...nah, it probably will.
I need to go watch cartoons now
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The act of holding the lit cigarette, the action of bringing it to lips...that's sexy, smoking in itself is not. Though if we knew or thought that someone was only doing it to be sexy...it isn't as appealing.
For the record, I think smoking is pretty much one of the most white trashy things conceivable. No offense to white trash. Smoking is Brian in flannels and pants that both have worn holes in them, standing in the kitchen with the broken coffee maker, broken oven, a refridgerator full of condiments and a cabinet full of booze. It's disgusting. Even that scene in sin city? Where that gorgeous girl in black and white gets killed? Gross.
I think also here addictions is kinda used... ambigously? I mean... I know I don't understand addictions well. How much of it is chemicals, how much of it is in your mind? Sleeping pills, what kind of dependency do you get from those? I don't know. I do know that we are kinda hardwired for sex, so that has a definite physical need... self injury I was thinking was all dramatic emo kid mind games but the rush of endorphins could be addicting... Watching my mom quit smoking though, or cutting down... I don't think "easy fix" is really true. And I'm not personalizing all this shit to add credibility to my case or try to make it a personal thing; I'm just explaining my oberservations. We ARE capable of stopping, I wouldn't argue about that.
I guess that point of all this is I don't thinking smoking is sexy and I don't think addictions are all perpetuated because we want them or the effects of them.
And going to the meetings... I love those, 'cause those are what I consider real people. I even felt a sort of revulsion of the punk obsession for a minute... I'm about to launch into a huge (huger, lol) rant but I have a chicken bake to go eat.
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