From an inexperienced employee's perspective, Walmart is not the "enemy". Obviously it's different for those that have had their businesses driven out by the Wall, but from my experience I'd rather work in a Walmart than a sandwich chain or gas station anyday. Smaller places can be run by people who just don't give a crap about their employees. No health insurance, lax payment ("I'll just pay you next next week. I don't have cash on me"), or even a certain degree of abuse. At a certain sandwich joint I worked at, the employer was constantly doing a crap job and tried to slap around my co-worker. Because there's no strict enforcement of corporate rules against harassment and such, anything went. But of course, the tip-jar was a huge corporate no-no.
Perhaps it's not eyesight but senility. She might just be forgetting that she took the test so many times, along with the wrong answers. Stories like these make me glad I left Korea.
It's disturbing that people, especially parents, don't think about television as anything more than entertainment. For a child, everything is new. Almost everything they hear becomes part of their reality because they don't have the "common sense" or old information to negate anything. The culture, language, imagery, everything on the television is absorbed. Television, and the world inside it, just becomes a fact of life. It sucks that kids aren't taught, but left to fend for themselves, knee-deep in a kaleidoscope of images. More and more people are growing up as children of the media, and life imitates art imitates life...
I'm not trying to say that television is the scourge of the humans, or that this girl has bad parents. But I mean, a house with the TV blaring all day just doesn't seem like an appropriate environment for the growing future leaders of the world.
@Byrd- I agree with your comment. People often contribute naught but sarcastic generalizations and try to pass it off as wit. Just because one is on the "Right Team" (be it liberal or conservative, believer or non-believer), does not mean that one is not a mere sheep.
Thought it was a lame concept. The visual shock of watching a monkey hang himself is reduced by the fact that it look like a cutscene for some kind of a post-apocalyptic video game. It's not even that disturbing--the absurdity made the whole PSA seem a bit comical.
I always felt that a lot of PSAs are too gimmicky or annoying to take seriously. Just look at those stupid singing angels in the Truth ads.
I think whether or not this is vandalism is irrelevant. The message is an important one. We live in a society that constantly bombards us with advertisements and useless information. Corporations create needs for us that we never thought we had to fill.
For those of us with a disposable income, a simple sticker like this can remind us that material goods like these are a frivolous luxury. For those of us who cannot afford the hottest new gadgets on the market, we can smile to ourselves and need not covet.
I'm not trying to say that television is the scourge of the humans, or that this girl has bad parents. But I mean, a house with the TV blaring all day just doesn't seem like an appropriate environment for the growing future leaders of the world.
I agree with your comment. People often contribute naught but sarcastic generalizations and try to pass it off as wit. Just because one is on the "Right Team" (be it liberal or conservative, believer or non-believer), does not mean that one is not a mere sheep.
I always felt that a lot of PSAs are too gimmicky or annoying to take seriously. Just look at those stupid singing angels in the Truth ads.
For those of us with a disposable income, a simple sticker like this can remind us that material goods like these are a frivolous luxury. For those of us who cannot afford the hottest new gadgets on the market, we can smile to ourselves and need not covet.
Infection, please!