insidious
and here's the definition:
- Working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner: insidious rumors; an insidious disease.
- Intended to entrap; treacherous: insidious misinformation.
- Beguiling but harmful; alluring: insidious pleasures.
well, a friend came back from over seas
and said something off the cuff
but very profound
that we are the only nation in the world
that sells
it's war machines as pleasure vehicles...
the Hummer
now - the diesel ones can run on bio-diesel
so here i am
thinking, they're not so bad
but when looked at in this new 'light'
it is insidious what our government/cooporation/media
trys to sell the american public
and we just lap it up
like dogs at the foot of their kings
it's disgusting!
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7 comments:
And do you think the name of this vehicle is clever marketing trick?
What man doesn't want a Hummer?
(Even though around here, I see mostly women driving Hummers, hhhmmm).
Peace
I'm pretty sure the original jeep was sold the same way.
Nick, you made me laugh with your question. Seems now they are marketing hummers to people who feel they are being pushed around. Great. If you feel the world is pushing you around buy a big assed truck/car and do some highway pushing of your own. America, you gotta love it.
Not many hummers where I live...most people drive trucks!
LOTTA Hummers here in Indiana. . .of course they are made just up the road from here in South Bend. Gotta keep that "nationalism" rolling along. . .
Yo, PoP...before they were marketed, and old Army Jeep was a fairly handy thing to have if you actually lived somewhere that you needed a four-wheel drive. Like way back in the hills. I've never understood why anybody living in a paved suburb needed an SUV that they use in a commute, but marketing is a useful animal in a wasteful society.
Seeing a Hummer Limosine? Just about turns me inside out. Almost as bad as seeing the Peanuts gang prostituted to Met Life.
And I refuse to call Seahawk Stadium "Qwest Field". I don't care what they paint on top of it.
I'll fight 'til I die, but they can't turn everything into a dollar sign. It was nice to see the Saints back home, but it'd be a lot nicer to see the rest of the city in as good of shape as that stadium. I'm a WITT (we're in this together), not a YOYO (you're on your own). That's what the Constitution says over and over again.
Ijits in air conditioned Hummers are the opposite of providing for the common good, and striving for a More Perfect Union.
az...off topic, but if you get a chance, please email me at meldonna_tallulah@hotmail.com re: limericks. I don't want to leave you out...
nick,
Ha! Never thought of it quite like that. Marketing and sex- joined at the nips.
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