Welcome to America My Friends

I will admit, the films and articles were hard to get through. They reveal a reality that no one really wants to face or wants to see. They tell nothing but the disturbing truth about our society. The percentage of people in the United States that are currently dieting at any given time is sickening. But take a hard look at the world we live in. It's a consumer society and a vicious cycle. We are all consumed in TV (which is primarily nothing but one big world of advertisement), we are surrounded by fast food and disgusting food. People wonder why Americans are all obese? I have to laugh, it's not that hard to figure out. Look at our food culture, or lack there of. It consists of TV dinners, fast food, grease, fat and sugar.

We really are, killing ourselves slowly.

We eat food unlike any other country in the world, and portions not even comparable to any other country in the world. Of course everyone is fat in America and what a perfect set up for the economy. Keep people fat and self-conscious about themselves, continue brainwashing them with the unrealistic body image they must attain, and the materialistic life they must have, and there will be money flowing from every direction. Hollywood rules our entire existence. 

"Look at how skinny she is, she has a perfect body. I want that body."

"Look at how many cars he drives, and how many houses he has, and all the women he's got dangling off him. I wanna be like that."

The result?

A fat, self-conscious and depressed society, that will buy and buy and buy all the products for diets, beauty, workouts, clothes...anything...to get them closer to what they see on TV.

And people wonder why most girls between the ages of 12-25 have some type of eating disorder? Why they have selfesteems that are as low as the ground?

Is it not the most obvious thing in the world?????

Because they turn the TV on everyday and are forced to stare at what they "wish they could be and what they wish they could have."

That's why.

As long as America stays fat, as long as the entertainment and advertising industries rule our lives, nothing will change. They want women to feel fat and ugly. If you're a man, they want you to feel poor and scrawny. Then you will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your life time on diet pills, gym memberships, beauty products, makeup, expensive clothes and anything else they can brainwash you into thinking that you need. Guys will spend money on weights to pump, a nice car to impress the ladies, materialistic things and trendy clothes.

Welcome to America my friends.

The land of "I wish" and the land of "I want."

But can never have.

A good read:

Davis, Caroline and Lori Scott-Robertson. "A psychological comparison of females with anorexia nervosa and competitive male bodybuilders: Body shape ideals in the extreme." Eating Behaviors 1 (2000):  33-46.

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