Sitting in my office I noticed that what appeared (according to all my senses) to be popcorn cooking in the microwave turned out to be instant macaroni and cheese. Leaving me with the thought:
It’s a representation of how profit bent that companies are that they will deliver one product, with all the representations of another product, just to make sure we consume it.
What the hell has happened to our sense of adventure?
Then I start to feel the mental dog chasing its tail. They do it because we want it, and will pay for it. We want it because we are diffident with regard to expanding outside of our boxes. Which generates a homogeneous environment that we are terrified to leave. They don’t present us with anything outside of that box for fear of losing profit, so we further seek the similar products, and stay within the box.
Next thing you know, we’re all eating Soylent Green and wondering what its made of. Then we become irate when we find out … and blame them for letting us let them do it.
