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Originally posted by ARTelevision
As you may know, I am very much in favor of holding fast food marketing in some part responsible for obesity.
I'm also not much of a believer in the myth of personal responsibility. It sounds good and is a useful way to live for those who are strong enough to master it. But to believe that the majority of people are strong enough to resist the massively funded, psychologically engineered manipulation of big media marketing is to be callous and ignorant to the the sad truth of human capability and, in the end, to be an unrealistic idealist and ideologue.
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mhm..thats an interesting view, and if i think about it, i find i do agree to a certain extent...especially this bit -
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Originally posted by ARTelevision
... ignorant to the the sad truth of human capability
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i've always been a pretty strong believer in personal responsibility...but, i wonder if i'm being narrow-minded in think ing that? i'm a very responsible person, i was raised that way, and also independent and such, so i've always been pretty able to think for myself and ignore as best as i can the silly 'messages' in the media and all that crap...and i readily take responsibility for whatever situation i'm in (sometimes to an extreme, but that's another story...).
anyways, i guess i've always just thought 'it's easy' and so everyone should be able to be like that.
but perhaps not, i wonder if i'm just one of the lucky ones.
and i'm only able to really understand from my perspective, which seems to not quite match the majority of Americans.
i dunno...
on the other hand, i totally hate the idea of sueing over this kind of crap, and all that sort of bullshit. people playing the 'it's not my fault' game...bleh. hate that.
hmm. good thread. good discussion.