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From: msw@browngr.UUCP (Mark Wachsler)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: indoctrination
Message-ID: <1444@browngr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 14:44:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 14:44:22 1984
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[bug chow]

>Are you kidding?  *Where* have you been?  The Manhattanization of America
>has one message for all women, that we must be young and thin and beautiful.
>And if advertising isn't the most influencing force on young people growing
>up, then what is?
>
>Regardless of what people in this newsgroup profess to look for in an SO,
>we are bombarded daily about this way to be.  Else how do you account for
>the millions of dollars realized by the diet industry.  Because people
>want to be HEALTHY?    Not to mention the money realized by the fashion
>industry.  Sheesh.

When I read this, I wanted to follow up by saying, "No, of course that's
not true."  Unfortunately, it is.  That is one of the major problems.

"Advertising is the root of all evil"   :-) / 2

Sigh.  So the big question is, what can we do about it?  Is there some way
to keep people from giving a damn about what some fool in some office
somewhere thinks we should want?  Probably not.  How depressing.

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Help me, Mr. Popeil!				Mark Wachsler
(Now how much would you pay?)			browngr!msw