Kathy and I don’t watch television very much. Our son Jess is with us, and he does. He clicked on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and our eyes were opened.
As a guy who used to be on television, I was a bit embarrassed. I think in many ways, I looked as phony as they looked on the broadcast. Phony and so out of touch with where Americans are today.
I remember when the parade was simply that, a parade. Now it’s a production of Broadway shows and promotion for the new lineup of NBC, the network televising the parade. From a log house in Montana, we watched, and I couldn’t help but wonder who relates to this stuff? The fancy fingernails, fake eyelashes, men with sixpacks selling ED medication, and trainers just waiting to give you the information needed to look like the guy in the picture with the perfect life.
I think about ranchers, farmers, and a young woman working at the bar in Lyons, Oregon. Is this what they care about? It’s a plastic representation of the world that only exists in the hearts and minds of marketers.
The blown-out-of-proportion success stories that seem too good to be true fall flat on an audience that has real problems just putting food on the table and paying the rent.
A major cultural shift is underway in America. People are looking for the truth. They don’t want pretty stories to make them feel good; they want reality.
The plastic make-believe world is everywhere. But so is the rejection of it. It’s not something to be angry about. Awareness is the beginning of change.
With Christmas just around the corner, the temptation to “buy” happiness is over the top. Perhaps instead of buying a gift, give that special person in your life an experience, something they will never forget. Buy memories, not more stuff. The world is so out of touch with where you and I are right now. But we don’t have to be.
Rick Dancer
The World Is So Out Of Touch
Kathy and I don’t watch television very much.
Our son Jess is with us, and he does.
He clicked on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and our eyes were opened.
As a guy who used to be on television, I was a bit embarrassed.
I think in many ways, I looked as phony as they looked on the broadcast.
Phony and so out of touch with where Americans are today.
I remember when the parade was simply that, a parade.
Now it’s a production of Broadway shows and promotion for the new lineup of NBC, the network televising the parade.
From a log house in Montana, we watched, and I couldn’t help but wonder who relates to this stuff?
The fancy fingernails, fake eyelashes, men with sixpacks selling ED medication, and trainers just waiting to give you the information needed to look like the guy in the picture with the perfect life.
I think about ranchers, farmers, and a young woman working at the bar in Lyons, Oregon. Is this what they care about?
It’s a plastic representation of the world that only exists in the hearts and minds of marketers.
The blown-out-of-proportion success stories that seem too good to be true fall flat on an audience that has real problems just putting food on the table and paying the rent.
A major cultural shift is underway in America.
People are looking for the truth.
They don’t want pretty stories to make them feel good; they want reality.
The plastic make-believe world is everywhere.
But so is the rejection of it.
It’s not something to be angry about.
Awareness is the beginning of change.
With Christmas just around the corner, the temptation to “buy” happiness is over the top.
Perhaps instead of buying a gift, give that special person in your life an experience, something they will never forget.
Buy memories, not more stuff.
The world is so out of touch with where you and I are right now.
But we don’t have to be.
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