Monday, September 12, 2011
The Hype Machine
Pages 18-21 talk about "Hype", as in advertisements. Lasn describes advertisements as "the most prevalent and toxic of mental pollutants". The clip we watched in Super Size Me showed how much money food corporations spent in advertising in one year compared to organic food corporations. In today's day and age, happiness is "derived" through attainment of the all mighty dollar, yet we see extremely wealthy Americans everyday commit ludicrous crimes, while much of middle class go through life with nothing more than a blemish on their criminal record. We also see the rich come out to the public with some of the worst mental issues that some of us have encountered. Do the rich encounter just as many problems in their "paradise" as the middle class does? Or do the sayings "money is the root of all evil" and "more money, more problems" ring true today? Is the middle class better off without all of the money? I personally believe that money is just a hinderance to one's personal achievement, nothing more than the materials it pays for. Yes you can say that we need money to live. Everyone has bills to pay. But do I really need 365 million dollars to pay my bills? Does anyone who makes more than a million dollars per year need that much money to pay their bills? Is anyone with that much money truly proud of their life? Few are for sure, having honestly earned their money through business that isnt harmful to the planet. The rest? Well, they probably think they are, but aren't.
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I think that money can be a hinderance to your life once you reach your goals. If you achieve all of your goals in life but are still chasing money for no reason than it can be a problem. I do however believe that some people do deserve to make over a million dollars a year for what they do and they deserve to be proud of their life. People who attack others net worths are most likely jealous of the life the wealthy ones have. Although that obviously is not always the case.
ReplyDeleteWell I think it is more about that we think money can solve everything. No matter what the problem maybe if we shovel enough money at it somehow things will get better. For instances right now families are trying to make ends meet and support themselves and well it is very easy to say that if we had more money all of our problems will be salved. However with more money you get to want things that right now you can only dream about. It seems nice not having to work 8 to 5 every day of the week but if you get too much money you don’t know what to do with, you just start spending it like a wild fires and this is what the down fall is for the rich. Plus for most of us, the world doesn’t care about what happens in our life but when you’re rich, people start looking at you to find some way to connect you to them. To make you human like you make mistakes like the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem as the world revolves around money!!! All sources lead back to this subject, are we mentally polluted with toxics due to the fact of more money. It seems to always be about money money and more money!!!
ReplyDeleteI think that money is important to our society. Without it American workers would not be driven to work as hard and manufacturer needs and wants. Also money holds a certain value for goods and services that a person can get. But just when does a persons amount of money get too greedy. It is sad to see such an unbalance in the amount of money a CEO makes compared to one of his overworked, underpaid employees. This is the corruption that down grading America were as the CEO has no problem paying for his five different vacation house but the underpaid employee can barley put food on the table for his family.
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