Dangerous, misleading tv commercials.
Like Magic Eraser.
Smiling guy bare-handing an eraser in his kitchen on all his appliances, counter, etc.
This stuff is very toxic.
What damage will the toxic stuff do to his hands?
What if he touches his mouth or eyes?
Why isn’t he wearing protective gloves?
How many consumers will copy his dangerous behavior?
What if his kids are nearby touching the surfaces he’s cleaning?
What if they then put their fingers in their mouths or eyes?
What are the dangers in trusting what you see in commercials done without concerns to public safety with making money the company’s bottom-line?
Even if there are warnings (in small print, shown in passing captions, or spoken quickly in happy or quiet voices), do consumers really see or hear these when the visual images are all various happy wish-fulfillment scenes?)
As usual, consumers and viewers are not critical watchers or thinkers for the most part. People hear and see what they want to, plunking down buckaroos for the most dangerous or misleading products and services. Advertisers count on that and load the commercials to be wish-fulfillments that only their product can conveniently fulfill.
The trouble with people. We do it to ourselves all the time in myriad ways. We vote for Trumps. We get the latest gadgets used once and then store them on the ash heaps of forgotten, stored rubbish. We buy/buy into people, products, or services we don’t need, which are dangerous and faulty, to satisfy imagined inner needs, to sell us things we don’t really want or need. Buy, buy, buy. Sell, sell, sell. To keep the economy going. To keep companies and candidates in business and power. This entails many choices that require only acquiescence, docility, numbness, and a total lack of thinking, critical reasoning, and plain common sense.
All to annihilate our personal autonomy, and erode the wisdom of potentially good, informed, and better choices.
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
–Pogo, Walt Kelly’s famous cartoon character
Corollary being: We do it to ourselves. Over and over.
Violence, ignorance, stupidity, hubris, exploitation, manipulation, greed, power-hunger, corruption, war, prejudice, discrimination, orneriness, inability to walk a mile in others’ shoes, a lack of empathy, sympathy, and intelligent imagination, resistance to informed authority, resistance to significant counter climate change action and appropriate vaccine response, lack of common sense, etc.
Yes, we are the enemy and we do it to ourselves many times in the course of a day, in many places around the world, in many different contexts.
Yes, the trouble with people, finally.