Song from tv show my niece watches praises narcissism and materialism

[MellowViper]

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I heard this on the TV while I was at my sisters, and what is this crap they're indoctrinating little kids with? If I have kids, I'm gonna keep them very far away from Nickelodeon. If you watch the commercials for any length of time, you realize their whole goal is to get kids to nag their parents to buy them plastic crap that they'll get tired of playing with within a month and food products that are probably responsible for the childhood diabetes epidemic, which my niece probably now has. I hate Nickelodeon. Everyone in child advertising should just kill their selves. You get the whole personal responsibility arguments from conservatives. If its illegal drugs, then everyone's ok with hanging the pusher. When its pushing colored, high fructose corn syrup that passes for "juice" and indoctrinating them with empty, consumerist values, its all the parents' fault. "Yah, well if you watched what little Timmy did a bit closer, then he wouldn't have had heroin sold to him, so its your fault parent". I see a double standard here. Yes parents are partially responsible, but it doesn't mean I can't hate people who push this crap on children.

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Here's some Bill Hicks to wash away the bad aftertaste from that first video.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

First video is blocked to non-USians.

[MellowViper]

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hopefully this will work for those outside of the US. That's a pain.

[Pretty Flaco]

I was thinking of that exact Bill Hicks stand up while i read that first paragraph lol

And there are shows out there in America that happen to beat that. Really most kids shows now adays are materialistic. My brothers watch a lot of TV and I catch some of the garbage

[MellowViper]

And there are shows out there in America that happen to beat that. Really most kids shows now adays are materialistic. My brothers watch a lot of TV and I catch some of the garbage

That's scary. I wouldn't have thought anything would be worst than this. What do they have on TV? Atlas Shrugged: The Series?

"Come on, we gotta work harder, fight the fight together, take it to the top, we got the winning team.
It's your moment, you can own it, it's the American dream"

Corporate competition is good and a very patriotic thing. Oligarchic status is also something attainable for every American if they just work for the system hard enough, regardless of the social class they were born in ...something like that anyway

"You wanna be famous? (Famous!)
You wanna be the one who's takin' the free ride?
Do you want to, cut to the front of the line?"

Social hierarchies are good and should be transcended if one wants privilege, comfort, and true happiness in life.

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All day, all night, the camera's on and it never lies.
You're under the spotlight, twenty four seven till the end of time."

Televised media doesn't lie to you and is a source of absolute truth, and to be of any great importance in life, you have to be recognized by it to achieve archival immortality.

If this kind of propaganda is really that pervasive, then America is surely fucked.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

hopefully this will work for those outside of the US. That's a pain.

Good grief. That's revolting, frankly.

Where are the shows encouraging kids to become scientists or campaigners for social justice? You know, the kind of people who actually improve society and make it worth living in, as opposed to the surfeit of pretty-faced, dead-eyed shallow parasites who are only ever famous for the sake of being fucking famous!

I hope kids' TV in the UK hasn't degenerated to this degree. Otherwise if I ever reproduce I may be forced to ban television from the house for the sake of both my own sanity and the mental well-being of my children.