cyrnel

That one struck me as especially sad. Broken values. It has an element of "average guy gets strikingly beautiful woman by compensating with gifts." Couldn't help but notice some irony in their trading of addictions. Still, you're right. It's over the top.

I watched a nephew play San Andreas a few weeks ago. In the game he was driving and listening to the radio when a parody advertisement played. It began with some couple quarrelling, then he gave her a diamond at which point she couldn't remember why she was mad. "Would you like a blowjob?" I think the game authors agree with you.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195