Steve Tobias (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} nakedmen) wrote,@ 2009-04-25 15:55:00 |
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Total
I was watching TV last night and this commercial for Total Cereal came on. Basically it started out by dissing Kashi Go-Lean Crunch, which is actually one of the healthiest cereals out there, and then by saying "Total provides 100% of the vitamins and minerals you need." And it goes down the side of the box to show Vitamin A: 100%, Vitamin C 100%, etc. For anyone who knows anything about nutrition they understand how fucking completely stupid this is. 100% means 100% of the recommended daily value (by the FDA I think), and it can go beyond 100%, and you can get that from a multivitamin anyway, and the fiber and antioxidants Kashi provides far surpasses any artificially "thrown in" vitamins Total can add.
What's the point? Why the fuck would you say your cereal is healthier if you know it isn't. If it's your product and you market it, do you really have the pride and stupidity to lie to yourself and to your customers just to make money? You absolutely know you are wrong but you either convince yourself otherwise (thereby making yourself dumber), or you flat out lie to your customers knowing that you're wrong. This is something I see all the time. It is definitely a downfall of capitalism, which partly relies on the fact that consumers are stupid. Actually, this sounds like a rant against consumerism but really it has nothing to do with it, it has to do with the garbage people poison their own minds with in order to reach whatever pointless ends they think will make them happier. It's not about "these people are dishonest, let's bring them down," it's about look at how people completely blow away their own potential.
I was watching TV last night and this commercial for Total Cereal came on. Basically it started out by dissing Kashi Go-Lean Crunch, which is actually one of the healthiest cereals out there, and then by saying "Total provides 100% of the vitamins and minerals you need." And it goes down the side of the box to show Vitamin A: 100%, Vitamin C 100%, etc. For anyone who knows anything about nutrition they understand how fucking completely stupid this is. 100% means 100% of the recommended daily value (by the FDA I think), and it can go beyond 100%, and you can get that from a multivitamin anyway, and the fiber and antioxidants Kashi provides far surpasses any artificially "thrown in" vitamins Total can add.
What's the point? Why the fuck would you say your cereal is healthier if you know it isn't. If it's your product and you market it, do you really have the pride and stupidity to lie to yourself and to your customers just to make money? You absolutely know you are wrong but you either convince yourself otherwise (thereby making yourself dumber), or you flat out lie to your customers knowing that you're wrong. This is something I see all the time. It is definitely a downfall of capitalism, which partly relies on the fact that consumers are stupid. Actually, this sounds like a rant against consumerism but really it has nothing to do with it, it has to do with the garbage people poison their own minds with in order to reach whatever pointless ends they think will make them happier. It's not about "these people are dishonest, let's bring them down," it's about look at how people completely blow away their own potential.
