Originally Posted by Trisk
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I'm 23, a female, and I'm proud to say that I have not eaten at McDonalds or any similar place since I was about...mm...10 years old?
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Well there's this really good fast food(ish) place in California (and a few in MD) that are really good and pretty healthy. I really want to see them spread out.
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Trisk, do you see what the problem is now? You say that you haven't eaten at McDonalds or any similar place, then base your next comment on a resteraunt that obviously assumed their goal in marketing to you. Alright, so you haven't really been too influenced by fast food marketing. What type of shoes are you wearing? What kind of clothes? What car do you drive? What toilet paper do you buy?
Marketing certainly doesn't "Control your Mind" and force you to do whatever the commercial is you're watching, but it certainly does have an influence on you. You have proved that it does, regardless of all actual facts, in your previous posts. Simply because you aren't as affected by certain advertisements doesn't mean others aren't either. Your very ignorance as to the actual "healthiness" of the food chain you had mentioned illustrates my point very well. You can walk around thinking that you haven't been affected by all this advertising, believing that it is simply willpower and that
YOU can't be herded around and manipulated like the rest of America - while wearing your Nikes, driving your Lexus, buying Charmin and eating "healthy" fast food. Everyone else feels the same way.