Disturbing trends

The trend in advertising I've been noticing over the past few years, that is.

The commercial buying season that is upon us (that would be Christmas to some) has spawned some really poisonous messages. I've seen a number of ads on TV that basically equate buying love-if you have spent enough on a gift people will love you, if not you're.... crap I suppose?

One depicts Dad hugging the one son but not the other-his gift wasn't good enough. Another was for Visa and ran a while back....two Grandfathers ran back and forth buying their new infant grandson bigger and bigger bears-the one with a Visa "won" this stupid contest.

Until he got his bill of course.

There are many more examples but I'm sure you get the drift. And this type of message is acceptable? If the parents are dumb enough to fall for it their children will likely follow suit and feel the same way. Buy and spend, beyond your means if you must...to buy love and be the "best" husband/wife/grandparent/child (read: sucker/sap/fool). If not you are "no good"...? Don't love your grandma on a fixed income because she can't buy you an X-box?

I am stunned by how blind and stupid most humans have become-I call them Sheeple. They have bought into this and can't even see themselves, they're inside an ant farm and cannot see outside. Look at the brainwashed herd of morons who actually trampled and killed a Wal-Mart employee. They were told it is Black Monday so go spend money-and they DID! It was important enough to kill another human......uh...yeah.

IDIOTS! Maybe someone should tell folk like that to go dive off the Golden Gate bridge before they breed.....run an ad on the TV saying it's the new cool thing to do...since they seem to mindlessly do what they are told.

The diamond industry is another great example of something the sheeple have bought into, with that "spend two months salary" guideline. Ha ha...for a rock...two months salary..because "they said so".

I would never even entertain the thought of marrying a man who was stupid enough to blow two months work on a rock because he was told to....if he spent six because he wanted to, of his own free will, that would be fine. Or ten bucks on a cubic zirconia, because that was all he could afford.

The idea of a free thinking man with the guts to do what he feels right is a much bigger turn on than some dumb sheeple who did what the ad told him to...shudder...we would not even be of the same species, I'd never mate with a sheep!!

Then again, neither are the women who'd be angry at anything less and myself. It's hard to believe we have even one strand of DNA in commen. I used to find them amusing, but when they actually kill to shop...well, that's just damned disturbing!

This "commercial buying season" I will appreciate the man I love, and who loves me, without a gift in the house. Affording it is not the problem or point, refusing to fall for the corporate hooey is. Maybe I'll go to the soup kitchen and help serve Christmas dinner instead :-)