Thinking Unilaterally: Reaction to Super Size Me

Lately we have been reading about McDonaldization, rationalization, and consumerism in America. On the subject and views that have been expressed I would tend to agreed.

This society as we see it today is a society of consumers and they are being herded like the slaughter house animals they are being fed off of. In broadest terms they are in agreement. Namely that our culture is increasingly becoming one dictated by advertising and large corporations that dictate to us it subtle and not so subtle ways how we should eat dress and feel.

On the video "Super Size Me" we see this clearly spelled out for us. The Author points out that we are being inundated with ads telling us to eat fast food, and yet we are killing ourselves by being the fattest nation on the planet. In this video we can almost see how a fast-food diet is like eating plastic, and at the same time killing us.

We also see how the big corporations are destroying our culture and replacing it with consumerism. A by product of all this madness is that they are becoming rich while we are dying.

To further this madness as it were the article "The Disenchanted Kingdom" points out factors to which we further rationalize this assembly line. We are no longer enjoying a real life but are becoming a product of a huge assembly line for the large corporations.

Derrick even points out that we are associating happiness with toys and greasy fake food. Just as much as we no longer dine on food and associate it with good times spent with the ones we love but are just putting it on an even larger "To Do List" of things we want to be done with each day.

Why Don't We "Order the Fish"

After all, those billions of cattle have to be killed each year to keep such a large population fed on fast food that they need to be fed somehow. What's a better way to feed cattle then than to feed the vegetarian cattle beef byproducts thus turning the poor brutes into cannibals?

How about feeding them by products of diseased animals and spreading infectious diseases that have been found to cross the species barrier and remain un-killable. Animals and humans infected with such a disease begin losing their minds literally. As the protein compounds are eaten away in the nerve tissue of the brain and other parts of the body. And cows are not the only ones that carry it. Thanks to the "bright idea" of the meat packing industry that decided to turn vegetarian animals into meat eaters by feeding them ground animal by products the disease now afflicts cows, chickens, sheep, and other animals.
As if all that wasn't enough we see that meats are at times dipped in bleach to rid it of the smell of spoilage, because at times it spoils between the time it's butchered and the time we are to buy it.

Meat can also be further contaminated by fecal matter, urine, bacteria such as e-coli, or human tissue or blood. {Scary thought}. So.....any body up for a Barbeque?

Digging Deeper into the Hidden Message

Now that we are no longer hungry lets turn our thoughts unto how all this is dished to unwary consumers. We have advertising lying through its teeth telling us that we will get anything from more happiness and self fulfillment to a better job or great sex if we just buy this product or that product.

It tells women that they are objects to be used by men to gratify them or to pop out kids and support society while being invisible. It also lies us and tells us than good gentle men are suppose to abuse women and children and beat up people.

That any body who wants to be any body has to lye through their teeth and all but kill others. We get all this verbiage and lies with just a picture or a few simple words. They do all this advertising just to make a big corporation richer using a few "white lies." Sorry no lies are the only safe lies.

After thinking about all this subject matter what are we left with? We find that those of us who think critically about such things and take things into consideration now want to speak out about it.

In return we find that our first amendment rights have been removed and that big consumers are supporting governmental campaigns. We are continually being silenced about such subject matter. In fact we are hushed to the point that we cannot buy advertising space or air time to discuss these subjects or cause a majority of the population to realize it.

I feel that I am just another one of these silenced voices. How About You?