Alright, I guess it’s time to get serious about this.
@robmandu you make some good points. While I appreciate your time and careful dissection of my question I’m sure that somewhere along the way a few people have encouraged you to be nice, as hard as it is. Let us not forget that. My intention was not to question your superiority as a human being.
My question was thick with sarcasm and I regret that as I had no clue the nerve it would strike with the fluther masses. I thought that the tragic hilarity in all of the hoopla surrounding this game was obvious and I was wrong. Don’t mess with football, duly noted.
I’ll step back and tell you how things look from my “ignorant” window on the world. I have worked in the corporate sector and am now in the public sector as a teacher. My intention is not to bash corporations, I’m a consumer, and I have nothing but respect for those that operate with integrity and honesty. GM does not operate with integrity and honesty, plain and simple. They create jobs for honest hardworking people, true. And if I have a choice to opt out of their manipulation, fine. But when I’m being forced to contribute, I see a problem.
Advertising is an art, I have a few friends in the business and they’re brilliant. And it does work, that’s true. Although, I’ll tell you (again, from my window) who those GM advertisements are working on. They are working on parents who drop their kids off for government funded breakfast in a super sweet ride that they are in deep debt to maintain. They are working on the kids in my classroom who believe that if they aren’t beautiful or texting on the right phone or listening to the Black Eyed Peas they are subhuman. They steal to maintain this lifestyle. They kill people to maintain this lifestyle. Now I’m not saying that the actions of others are your responsibility or mine or anyone else’s. Ultimately each person is responsible for their own. But I believe that this acceptable form of dishonesty and manipulation only breeds dishonesty and manipulation. It goes on and on and on. I think it could be cleaned up quite a bit, call me crazy.
@chyna agreed, there are much larger offenses being made. But for me, the Super Bowl experience gave me that good old fashioned WTF moment.
@robmandu I do a lot about the problems I see but if you have a good idea on how I might regain confidence in the corporate world I’ll honestly consider it.