I find it hypocritical and unreasonable that the same people who submit to the banal paranoias of our culture tend to pin the term "paranoid" on people who talk about "conspiracy theories". In fact, it's disturbing to me that even the mention of the word "conspiracy" has the whiff of crazy to so many of us. If you were "them", wouldn't you want
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Infotainment, eyeballs, selling white space. All exist to make money for investors/shareholders. Return on investment. Advertising. White space for marketers.
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What percentage of Americans are involved in the production, marketing and distribution of empty "entertainment," be it cinema, television, video games or music?
What percentage of US GDP is derived from this empty "entertainment"?
Could the US economically sustain itself if it suddenly were robbed of the apparatus by which it is able to produce and sell false and/or empty "entertainment"?
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Those are good questions.
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The first category of goods brings one toward the "normalcy" of a consumer-spending oriented market. They help you be you.
The other drugs (aside from alcohol, which belongs on the other side) are illegal because they prevent consumer spending. They help you get away from you.
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I dodge piles of puke riding home on Tuesday nights. I don't know how the average lifespan is so high here with the unrealistic amount of drinking that goes on...if Japanese people could loosen up and communicate with each other without being totally wasted they would probably all live to 130.
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I imagine a high protein, low fat, moderate diet has something to do with it, but not everything.
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No. It's especially strange because the alternative is so incomprehensible.
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