Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Commercial Overkill & Progress

Commercials Every day commercials. You read a paper, magazine, bulletin. You see them everywhere on signs and billboards. and finally TV.
It's enough to make you lose your freaking mind!
I understand that sometimes commercials are necessary to sell and promote products, but lets be serious! It's overkill, look at all the forms of commercialization we have, promoted with discrimination.
There are commercials promoting anti-smoking campaign's, but no commercials as a rebuttals to defend those peoples rights to smoke. Commercials for Breast Augmentation, and drugs to increase your stamina so you may last longer in bed! Commercials to sell you happy pills or any other drug that fits the bill from your problems of Anxiety and depression to making your hair grow. Even though the side affects are read so fast you can barely pay attention to it. and half the time the side affects are worse than the problem you had. May cause constipation, anal leakage, blurry vision, loss of hearing, decreased sense of smell, cramps, ulcers, cancer, and death! Does anyone ever listen to these?

Besides the fact that the commercials are getting dumber by the day, they aren't really helping us with anything. I watch Television to be informed and entertained, If I think I need something I am pretty sure I can figure it out without the glory of the commercial filling my dreams. Lets face it, if you get to the point that your crapping your pants cause you cant make it to the bathroom, You already know you have a problem! You don't really need a commercial thrown at you for this! You know that you are going to have to change you shorts allot or buy some diapers, until you can get to a doctor and have him give you drugs that will result in blindness.

I would like to watch a Movie or a Television program for more than 5-7 minutes without the interruption of a commercial that will last for 5Min's or longer! You know what I mean, just when the show gets interesting, they break for advertising. So out of a 1 hour show you really only get to see 40mins of it, the rest is commercial.

I am really considering cutting off television! its not good enough you get commercial overkill but we as a society are forced into submission of transition from analog to digital. You cant watch TV anymore unless you get the special converter box or upgrade to HD!
Although the picture quality of HD is great, it is not the point. The point is having the right to decide, to have the choice. We transitioned from things of the past without the need of Federal Mandates Governing this process! Remember Cd's, MP3s, VHS tapes to go with your VCR. Or how about the cassette tapes that went with your boom-box or home stereo system. or The Vinyl Records that went with the Record player? how about (here it comes) the 8track tapes and players? uh-huh!
The point is that we have always manged to progress and upgrade, creating new and faster devices all the time. without the rule of law dictating the end of said devices. As progression occurs the old becomes obsolete on its own! When was the last time you seen a Am/Fm cassette car stereo? or a Home stereo w/cassette player? Coming soon to a store near you The HID (Holographic Interactive Display) You can now harness the ability to control the size of your display from 2"inches to 20'feet just by positioning the HID pods. No more worries about if it will fit, or where to put it, cause you cat place it anywhere. and the best part is: it takes no room at all. and where-ever it is you can simply walk through the display without any damage to your HID (This is only theory- but the technology is there)

Im just saying, I want to watch a program whether its News to inform me or a Movie to entertain me, I would like to watch at least 30mins of uninterupted TV

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