During Saturday morning cartoons, there are various ads for anything from peeing puppy toys (ew, ew, ew!) to resisting peer pressure. The peer pressure ones are the best because they are so over the top. The whole idea of someone smoking enough pot to be in a coma, while terrifying for a commercial, is pretty absurd in real life. It would be more realistic to show someone eating themselves into an ice cream coma after smoking pot. But I digress. My favorite today was the usual "Peer Pressure is bad. Dump your friends" commercial which was immediately followed by a Scholastic book commercial, whose slogan is (quote) "Reading. Everyone is doing it."
So peer pressure is good when it’s reading but bad if it’s drugs. O.k. that seems straight-forward. But what about fast food commercials, showing that everyone is doing it; followed by the "Get off your ass and play outside" commercials complete with famous football star berating a little kid for watching Saturday morning cartoons (hmm. a little bit of a conflict here, you can’t see the commercial unless you’re watching cartoons).
While I think too much sometimes, I wish that others would think a bit more. I suppose it would be ideal to have kids that read, don’t do drugs and exercise after eating at McDonald’s, but then that would be a generation that was programmed solely by television commercials. While I like the idea of technology taking over the world someday (a.k.a. Terminator), this way is a bit too sneaky for my liking.
An Erinku:
jittery coffee nerves
combined with
sugar for lunch
everyone is doing it
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