Top Ten list that I know is entirely too long and I'm really sorry, but I had a lot to say...so yeah :)

1.Advertising, my dear friend advertising. I had always seen various ads and seen the stupidity in them, but I had never realized the sneaky, conniving work and thinking that went into making the ads. I had also never really thought about what may of these ads are doing to the human psyche. Advertising turns people into products. We value people less if we are surrounded by objective images of them, which occurs in advertisements across the board. Ads cloak human and environmental destruction behind images of beautiful people. In addition, they often make beautiful and desirable the using up of resources. Furthermore, one of the main goals of advertising is to create conflict in a person in order to make them consume. This is just gross, and not okay. All people are beautiful and fine how they are, don’t tell them they’re not okay, and imply that they are lesser just to make them want to buy your shit.
2.Personality Diagnostic checklist for Corporation= Psychopath.
So true. Corporations are not people, and if they were they would be psychopaths. As was stated in the film The Corporation, they have callous unconcern for the harm of others, the incapacity to maintain enduring relationships, reckless disregard for the safety of others, deceitfulness/repeated lying and coning of others for profit, the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to convert to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors. Yet they are considered people? Then can someone please tell me why on earth they aren’t being aren’t they being put in jail or put through some sort of intensive therapy then? I’m a little confused, I mean last I checked, people who were diagnosed, as psychopaths weren’t allowed to go running around trying to control the government. I don’t, maybe I’m mistaken, but it just seems a little backwards to me that corporations can go around being able to claim person status, yet they don’t have to suffer any of the same consequences. And just to get a little more controversial, how can people be okay with calling a corporation a person, but then some people have a hard time seeing an embryo before thirteen weeks as a person. In my mind, a thirteen-week-old embryo, no wait, a five-day-old blastula has more potential for personhood than any corporation anywhere, but that’s just me.
3. Monsanto, (cringe) nuff said.
4. Corporations can patent anything that’s alive except a full birth human. Really? Really?! Is this at all necessary? Pretty soon they’ll own the idea of a human. Companies are now able to patent genes. Before you know it, they will own the genes that make up the evolution of our species. The idea of a human can be owned. It just doesn’t make sense. No one, no company will ever own me, or the idea of me, I don’t care what any patent or legal papers say. Nope, not gonna happen.
5. Fanta was created for Nazi Germany so coke could keep making money in Germany… while people died…What?!?! If people only knew some of the things corporations have done to make a little extra green. And, IBM punch card system used in Nazi concentration camps. My goodness. And to make matters worse, all of the machines to print these cards were leased out and had to have on site maintenance done once a month. They can’t say they had no idea anything was going on. Not okay. Perhaps some of these corporations should have been tried for some form of war crimes. I don’t know, just a thought.
6. US media is over sanitized. People say war is tasteless. Well, yeah, it is. Its also vile, cruel, deadly, unnecessary, unintelligent, barbaric, merciless, malicious, hateful, despicable, abominable, violent, and bloody. That doesn’t mean we should keep doing it but not show it on the news because that makes it less bad. The United States does not see the true face of war. We don’t see the gory pictures, the photos of death affecting the people. We only see the gray heat seeking videos with targets. We don’t see the people behind the target, the people with tears leaving streaks down their dirt and blood covered faces, the people screaming while carrying limp children who don’t even understand the meaning of war. We don’t see that, and thus we tend to be ambivalent to the whole concept of war. It’s a problem.
7. Toxic Sludge. To be honest, I think I knew it existed, but I didn’t know the extent or any of the issues surrounding toxic sludge. But now that I’m more aware of some of these issues…whoa…like whoa!! And bio solids? Ya, that’s crap. Changing the name doesn’t change physical properties. I’m pretty sure if I legally changed my name to Flying Unicorn I wouldn’t sprout wings, hooves, or horns, or start having weird hay cravings. .
8. Dissent built this country, I had never really thought about it that way before. But I suppose it’s true. And the idea that rage is good when it is used constructively to create social change, I like it. But society has sort of morphed to tell us that rage and the like is bad, and we should suppress and accept. But this is just not okay. That is the kind of thinking that leads to dictatorships. And last I checked, we are supposed to be living in some form of democracy. Further more, we should not let our creativity and imaginations be sold to us. Those are the kinds of things that need to come from the people, not the companies. Creativity and imagination are things that should come from with in the individual not bought from the corporations and their idea of what they want us to like, and see as cool, etc…
9. And I had no idea about all of the PR that’s present in our media. Where did real journalism go? Wherever it’s hiding, it can come out now. Its presence would be greatly appreciated.
10. Also, culture jamming, not gonna lie, I’m a fan. I really like the idea of people, individuals doing what they can to kind of stick it to the corporations and let them know that what they are doing isn’t welcomed. It’s kind of a way for the people to take back what is rightfully theirs. I have done some small culture jamming activities, and I plan to continue, and expand. Next on the list, sending an much needed letter to the Brats company. Its going to take all of my editing skills to not end up sending them what could turn out to be a novel length letter describing all their violations to humankind.

Questions:
1. Fill in the blank. It has to reach _____level for the majority of people to start realizing that the amount of media in our lives today has started to reach unhealthy levels and that people as a group need to take back their creativity, imagination, and partially media free lives.
2. There are so many people who are in charge of corporations. Why have none of them realized the harm being done by them, and made any steps to fix the problems the corporations are creating?
3. Why don’t companies actually go green, like for real, instead of dancing around the idea and saying they are when everybody knows they aren’t. It would end up saving them money anyway? Which, if I understand correctly, is pretty much all corporations care about anyway.

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