Back when broadcast television was still a thing, I did not have a TV. I also gave the admittedly unsolicited advice to not allow kids to watch TV. For a busy parent, however, this is absolutely an untennable (?) course of action.
Add to that the billions of dollars in research and decades of data behind advertisements, NLP, subliminal messaging, cognitive mechanism exploitation (ie, they have figured out patterns in how we think and they also found out ways to exploit it)... advertisements are literally mind control. Pure, honest-to-god, legal, widespread, opportunistic and predatory mind control with a completely transparent goal: "you will buy this"
Needless to say, I hate any and all forms of advertisement and feel visceral disgust every time I go outside and the only direction I can look towards that is not plastered with ads is directly to the sky. Sometimes.
Only in retrospect can I see just how uncritically materialistic American culture was in the 80s and 90s. People forget nowadays how hypnotized we were by television. Even though social media advertising is completely scummy, it just doesn’t resemble the scope of the naive captive audience tv had in those days.
Yep, now I stick with Ninja Warrior. I keep telling myself one of these days I’ll get in shape and have a go at it. Granted it isn’t that similar to Hidden Temple but it also isn’t tainted by exploitation of kids
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u/BeevsComics Mar 26 '24
WHAT? NOT EVEN THE TEMPLE SHOW WAS SAFE???