On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:02 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Andre, > > What did McDonald's ever do to you? Did you get a bad bag of French > fries or something? Sounds to me that you, unlike Pirsig, are anti-free > market . > > Platt > > [Lu - asking If I may be allowed to interject...]
I believe, actually, that McDonalds is anti-free market. The beef (pardon the pun) I have against them is similar to the one I have against the Disney Corp; They succeed based mostly upon reputation. Somehow - through advertising or time or brainwashing - people don't do the math anymore, they take for granted: Disney=good Anything with the Disney logo, it must be good for our kids! Never mind that in every animated Disney movie; 1) one or both parents are dead, or brutally murdered during the movie. 2) Most of the time the message is: you can do whatever you want, and it'll all come out right in the end. 3) If the movie was adapted from a beloved fairy tale - they completely remove, or decimate the original "moral of the story". 4) Some of the scariest imagery is in those movies! McDonalds=good Never mind that McDonalds food is barely edible. Never mind that it isn't good for you. We are Americans, we love McDonalds. You hate McDonalds, you are therefor a hate mongering anti-American. Have you noticed that every time a McDonalds commercial comes on the radio (probably on the TV too, but I wouldn't know), there's always two, back to back. One's fast and young, ones slower and more "mature". Ever wonder why that is? Can you say "Brainwashing"? Where does free market come in, when the quality of the product no longer matters? Please, before you come back at me with the automatic reaction - do me a favor... Go, buy their food, and try to actually taste it. Pretend that it doesn't have those wonderful golden arches (the giant breasts that make us feel so nurtured), and just see if it is actually palatable. Watch a Disney movie (or *shudder* the Disney Channel). Look, as if from the eyes of a young child, at the gigantic monstrous creatures growing more evil looking with each frame - think about sweet Ariel defying her father, causing chaos, but marrying the prince in the end anyway (instead of ending up as sea foam, like she did in the original). I have a friend who did an experiment - she bought a McD burger (hold all the condiments), kept it in the box, on a shelf - 20 years and counting. No mold. No bugs. Except for being dried out, it looks like it did the day she bought it. Maybe this is a good thing? http://thestockmasters.com/images/mcdonalds-fat.jpg Venting. Lu Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
