thanks to everyone who has been patient with me during this tinnitus episode. i am learning coping skills.
life is getting better. i've even been able to renew my pointed comments towards corporate evil...
i'm not saying all corporations are evil... just the ones who don't temper their profit motives with moral aptitude.
... like when walmart says "we're saving people money so they can live better..." - how about let's be honest instead? "we're baiting the general public with cheap stuff in order to get more sales. we are shutting down mom and pop stores all over the country so we can increase our profit margin, while the consumer eats toxic food in the guise of a gift".
and what about the phonetic fraternity of fast-food and pharmaceuticals? the juxtaposition of twisted freedom of choice. "just 2 dollars gets you a tub of artery clogging grease, but don't worry- the next commercial will sell you something to fix that (with only a few deadly side effects)"
what if profit margins were determined by how much love was exchanged - or the amount of appreciation that was derived from product or service. not in a bogus advertising scheme from pepsi kind of way, but in a real "make things better" utopian epiphany.
but i'm just dreaming...
life is getting better. i've even been able to renew my pointed comments towards corporate evil...
i'm not saying all corporations are evil... just the ones who don't temper their profit motives with moral aptitude.
... like when walmart says "we're saving people money so they can live better..." - how about let's be honest instead? "we're baiting the general public with cheap stuff in order to get more sales. we are shutting down mom and pop stores all over the country so we can increase our profit margin, while the consumer eats toxic food in the guise of a gift".
and what about the phonetic fraternity of fast-food and pharmaceuticals? the juxtaposition of twisted freedom of choice. "just 2 dollars gets you a tub of artery clogging grease, but don't worry- the next commercial will sell you something to fix that (with only a few deadly side effects)"
what if profit margins were determined by how much love was exchanged - or the amount of appreciation that was derived from product or service. not in a bogus advertising scheme from pepsi kind of way, but in a real "make things better" utopian epiphany.
but i'm just dreaming...
i have not been inside one in over 6 years. i won't venture into the den of corporate darkness.
during easter, i noticed the endless seas of walmart bags in trash cans (not recycling bins).
it then occurred to me that the holiday itself had been barbarized by corporate america.
last i heard, easter was about celebrating rebirth- be it christian or pagan, that's the idea of it.
but somehow we twisted the meaning into the "stuff sweets into cheap ass plastic eggs, and hide hundreds of them in an attempt to give kids sugar comas".
we used to decorate our own eggs (real eggs, even) and a single chocolate bunny was more than enough loot.
now kids are eating 6 pounds of candy in a sitting, and people wonder why we (as a country) have the worst health on the planet. thanks to walmart, people think it's ok to buy stupid crap - after all, it's cheap!