Hey Lu, Nice thing about a free market -- you can choose not to eat McDonald's hamburgers or watch a Disney movie. Isn't that better than someone telling you what you must eat or watch, treating you like a child?
Platt On 4 Dec 2009 at 19:18, Louise Pryor wrote: > 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/
