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lol... I just had an amazing epiphany a couple days ago. A great though came to me as I was reflecting on why exactly are we all so "addicted" to Junk Food.
It hit me as I was walking through safeway... where I live there are starbucks in safeways. Anyway there is this add... and it says "treat yourself to a coffee".
I couldnt quite figure it out... but something appeared messed to me up about this statement. Because I know that coffee is good, but the sugar throws me off and whatnot. I still like coffee... but I know there is something addictive about starbucks and whatnot.
Then it hit me... its the word "TREAT". See since I was a kid... my parents always said I could have a treat if I was good! But what is a treat?... its something you get when you are good, but its also something you consider extra good. IE better than other foods. See by me being raised to believe... and being in aggrement with... the idea that junk food is better than regular food. I always want junkfood...
I also get the feeling that anything that is a "treat" is typically not good for you in the food world. I mean there are a 1000 ways to look at this, but the way advertisers portray it is what I am looking at directly.
When in reality junkfood is a worse food... its not a "treat" at all. There really is no such thing as treats... there are only foods. Some foods bring about some conditions, where other foods bring about others. Anyway it completely opened my mind to the way advertising works. I have memories my mother tells me happened at around the age of two or three... being able to see McDonalds from miles away and getting over excited at the aspect of going there.
My mother also said I didnt like the food... just the toys. But now that mental association is there... and so I crave McDonalds sometimes. But the battle is over now because I am aware... because I am now changing my perspectives on foods.
So now when I see advertising... I try and see the message they are trying to give me. What they are trying to put into my mind. I try to do this in all things now... religion, movies, sex. And I know this is all out in the open, and everyone knows about this. But until I really understood the full impact of the advertising... and how it applied in the context of my life... I couldnt really get the full grasp of advertising applications.
I now wonder about everything in my life... and social paradigms. Its crazy!!! I think I could post about this topic for days.
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This is a reply to # 1,208,527A treat is generally something that tantalizes the senses or is something refreshing from the ordinary in life.
Some can consider going to an uplifting movie a treat. It takes one out of the ordinary day of life for a while.
Ice cream is considered a treat because it tantalizes the senses through taste buds and tends to take us away from the ordinary of life even though just briefly.
I think a treat is most anything that causes us to experience an enjoyable sensation.
It could even have been a ride in the back of uncle Joe's pick up truck around the farm and down to the lake and back. That would have caused one to experience an enjoyable sensation after a day or week of toiling on the farm.
When Starbucks uses that word it would most likely trigger what I have described above and the idea that comes to mind is the, if just partially, escaping of the ordinary moments of life through some tantalizing of the senses.
Its a very effective trick.
We are very easily tricked by something which causes us to experience an enjoyable sensation, even if just for a brief moment.
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This is a reply to # 1,208,579"A treat is generally something that tantalizes the senses or is something refreshing from the ordinary in life."
Thats one way of looking at it...
What I am getting at is that people create perceptions around treats. So lets say a treat is exactly as you say it is. Now what if I make an agreement or perception that because treats stimulate the senses... that this makes them better than other things.
Like saying "work sucks"... now I might not think work is a treat in the way it tantelizes. But that doesnt mean "work" actually "sucks", it just means that work isnt stimulating. Or I like the taste of apples better than oranges... so oranges are better than apples. Apples and oranges are both just fruit... one is not better than another... however I believe that we do make these associations subconciously.
Same could be said about junkfood. I like junkfood better than regular food... or "health food". Therefore junkfood is better than "health food", therefore I want to eat junkfood more than I would want to eat health food.
So when I see a starbucks... put a poster up saying to "treat myself". I see several things.... first it implies that starbucks is a treat... second it implies that I am entitled to a treat. So IF I have the agreement that starbucks coffee is a treat... then chances are I will buy it. However if I subconciously made an agreement that starbucks coffee is the best... I might drink it daily, not even realizing why. And getting upset when I cant have it anymore, because subconciously I still think its the best. - Re: Pizza Hut, Pepsi, Starbucks, Rel... mo123
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This is a reply to # 1,208,579Hi, well my thoughts are that we are brainwashed by our mom much more than the stores as such. When I was small my mom would say eat, eat, eat. Eat when you are hungry and eat when you are sad. Eat when you are happy and eat when you want to celebrate.
So when we want to get healthy and we are sad, we eat. It is not like we don't want to be healthy, it is because we have been trained so when someone succeeds in being healthy it is a great accomplishments.
Brainwashed by religion is completely different. Look at all the cults committing suicide because of the impending judgement day. If people lived life like tomorrow was judgement day we probably would be eating. oh no! i said a bad thing.
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This is a reply to # 1,208,527I agree with the psychological part, sure enough, but don't leave out the fact that lecithin and msg are addictive.- Re: Pizza Hut, Pepsi, Starbucks, Rel... Karlin
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This is a reply to # 1,212,374Advertising has changed the human race. It all started early on in the 20th C. with Pharmacueticals and Coca-Cola ads, and then later on junk food and fast food ads.
There is no doubt we have been brainwashed by very clever people who know what they are doing. Some of the brightest minds on the planet work at ad agencies.
Have they fooled themselves? Probably.
But then it got into POLITICS and corporatism, and the workplace. We are told/trained/brainwashed into believing that we simply have to get a job because there is no other possibility for survival. We all moved into the cities to get jobs. This move to the cities is still be perpetrated on people in developing nations.
The corporate farms took over the family farms. Nobody is allowed to make a go of it living off the land.
Nobody is allowed to make a go of it living off the land?? Gee, isn't that how humans got to the 20th Century? For 100,000 years we lived off the land, just as people still do in some undeveloped nations.
I say it should be an option for those of us who do not fit into the modern lifestyle. I am sure I would have had a hard life in the bush, but I would have been happier living off the land.
There is no such option. I ask you why not?
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