The Land of the Fat, The Home of the Broad
Written: Apr 17 '00 (Updated Apr 17 '00)
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Pros: Keeps the masses under control
Cons: Not enough violence on children's TV shows
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| conglomerate_mosthated's Full Review: TV Land |
The lower and middle classes in America consistently prove their overall incapacity, indolence, and lethargy regarding their concern for the "TV-ification" of society. Along with media giants, the conglomerates at the helm of the American food industry (Kraft, Knoll Pharmaceuticals (i.e. Meridia), Coca-Cola, Hershey, Slim Fast Foods, etc.) keep the inept lower and middle class in a thrall of self-indulgence and over-consumption. Since TV viewing and obesity are strongly inversely associated with household income as well as parental education, the real winners in TV-shows such as "Who wants to be a Millionaire" are the executives of food and entertainment corporations and not the idiotic half-wit that poses as contestant. While the majority of the American population (specifically stay-at-home mothers), are busy navigating the mindlessness of cable TV while lounging around their smartly appointed vinyl sided homes donning pink sweatpants, grease stained Disney T-shirts (from economy-sized bags of ruffles), and generally wallowing in their own squalid nastiness while stuffing happy meals down their children's already burgeoning throats; fast-food company executives are hard at work aggressively targeting college-educated soccer moms and the urban poor. Wall Street would agree that these media, food, and pharmaceutical firm's bottom lines have a striking resemblance to their customer's thighs.
The vehicle that is most used to "educate" consumers about new and exciting ways to achieve obesity is and always will be the television. Sadly, even the hard working folk who have attempted to provide their children a "better life" through social ascendancy have not been spared the onslaught of media-induced obesity. Rap videos and an increasing number of the "artists" who produce them suggest wealth, power, and sexual fervor is associated with bodily mass. Even subtle ethnic terms such as "living large" and achieving levels of "phat-ness" have an effect on low class societies. Sadly, the middle class youth proves its meager beginnings and lack of foresight by attempting to emulate lower class fashion. Baggy clothes and a stout appearance have long been high fashion in the suburban wastes that pollute the American countryside.
The only benefactors of keeping parents and their children horribly obese are the owners of clothing, media, food, and drug companies. In upscale corporate America, being obese and even eating in front of your subordinates is a sure-fire career killer. Pick up a glossy business or money magazine. As you glance through the profiles of the leading men (and occasional woman) business leader, you will find that not one can be described as fat. The sophisticated and educated corporate executives know that their wares will kill them. In an effort to secure their Board-level positions, they have smartly cast their nets in the sea of laziness and apathy that is the American public. The record sales they consistently achieve are the result of turgid marketing via the seemingly friendly, happy, and benign medium of television.
It seems the American elite has found yet another way to keep the groveling poor and the hapless middle class from social ascendancy. Through the combined use of TV and a high-fat diet, becoming obese is a clear and obvious result of the American environment.
If you feel that fast food qualifies as nutrition, Disney World is a dream vacation, and Wall Mart is a great place to meet for lunch after filling your minivan with goods to decorate you new development home; keep supersizing your children's happy meals and plopping down on your couch with a trusty bag of cheese puffs and a "New Release" from Blockbuster. In the same amount of time it takes you to fail on your numerous diet attempts, my trust portfolio, thick with food, media, pharmaceutical, and entertainment stocks, will soon resemble your waist.
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