Originally Posted by G. Bucci
We are living in a consumer's world and I don't think that will change in my lifetime.
How do we make people realize that TV and marketing are taking the importace out of family and conservation.
Don't want to be a killjoy or anything.
Just not happy with the way things are going in my backyard
You have every reason to be a 'killjoy', as we all do, so we rant. Ranting has it's place, but so does *then* following thru to being proactive.
I happen to have a severe disdain for media, and anything which puts importance on "image", (but which is otherwise rather hollow) and have avoided watching tv since about '83, and also avoid buying into any of the fashion industry... period. I avoid magazines, news, all kinds of media. So, why would somebody like me suggest using media as a billboard of sorts -- super-imposing pop trends/models with bicycles --- to impress upon the youth in America?
Because I respect that it *is* the most powerful way to wrestle --- plain and simple, it's all about "images".