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Personal Values In Today's Society



I just discovered that I don't know anything about todays society.
This of course came as a shock. I had thought that I was an informed
citizen but I now know otherwise. this enlightenment came at great cost in
time, and effort. The time was spent in watching television for an hour.
The effort was to not lose my sanity for unlike any other hour of TV, this
time I was forced to actually watch the commercials. The values that TV
presents seem to be different than what I was taught as a child.
Advertisers seem to present their own version of morality and values.
Their idea of morality might not coincide with ours, but it does sell their
products.
Wait, I just learned that if I buy my ...

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better listen to the lite fm 93.9.,
and for lunch I can run out to Arby's for 99 cent roast beef sandwiches,
but only for a limited time. And if those roast beef sandwiches get me
sick I can go to Osco and get some medicine twenty-four hours a day. All
of these ads just came rapid fire. Is this playing upon my need for
instant gratification? Are the advertisers trying to get me to hurry?
I have to go see a Jeep dealer so I can outrun a bull in heat, but
I better be careful if I get it to dirty the pigs will fall in love with it.
Wow is that a nice Jeep, but what is the price anyway? And is it
practical to own a vehicle that can go anywhere on or off the road? I
don't seem to need the ability in a car to drive up the side of a mountain.
But if a Jeep isn't my ticket then Taures has the car for me. It's fast
and responsive, just the car to get me to Arby's for the 99 cent special.
Here again I missed the small print. I wonder why they flash it so fast?
What is in that print ...

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on my
finances, but that is not something they stated in the ad. Do I really
need this car anyway? Will it do all the things that are implied in the
ad?
Todays society as presented in this hour of commercials seems to be
one of instant gratification, and the need to get sexy women fast. I don't
know if I can argue with that because it is appealing to me, but I'm not
sure it is representative of todays society. By watching just this one
hour I would believe that power, and the buying of love is the most
important thing on a mans mind. Also all of these advertisements seem to
be directed at men. This was of course during a program directed at men.
If you don't have the cash on ...

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