Posted by Sigismund on March 13, 2008, at 23:04:23
In reply to human race, posted by sdb on March 13, 2008, at 20:42:18
There is a product you can buy your children so they can work out as they watch TV.
I saw this little boy, maybe 3, in a treadmill. At least I think that is what it's called...a kind of walking machine like they have in gyms, so he could walk and walk and never get anywhere.
The idea is to help prevent childhood obesity by giving your kids a station to work out in while they are watching TV (good preparation for the workforce!).
Well, this little boy in the photo was so unhappy, which I guess was why the photo was in the papers.
The next day a paediatrician wrote a great letter about the blind cruelty of it.
Is it any wonder that people today think in terms of products?
I see in today's paper the landless being moved out of some part of the Amazon.
Still, that was happening way before capitalism made it its project to privatise all aspects of our lives, and sell them back to us.It would even be OK with me if they had anything worth selling.
One day in Tokyo was enough for me. Computers? Handbags? Louis Vuitton? Mobile phones?
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