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[velvetechos]

The Brave Little Toaster, one of my favourite childhood movies, is FUCKED UP. That is a fucked up movie right there. It just readies kids for this terrible consumer culture we have going on in the States.

Was lying down last night, trying to fall asleep, when Ki started thinking about what a nice movie The Brave Little Toaster is.

wrong!

This movie depicts a bunch of inanimate objects, as living creatures, with emotions, and feelings, and they're sad when they're left behind. They run after the child for leaving them behind, and they feel hurt, and unloved.

What the hell kind of message does that send people?

Ki'll tell you what kind of subconcious message that sticks into the minds of young people. It makes them want to go out to the store, and buy everything in sight, because if they don't, the objects might go to the dump, and they might be sad, and they might resent little Bobby-Jo, and Mary-Sue for not taking them home with them.

It also makes them want to pack-rat and stock pile everything they can get their greedy little hands on. Never ever throw anything away, weither or not it's broken or outdated, or just not used anymore.

THIS

is the source of all evil in America today. ~_* Stick that in your pipe and smoke on it for a while.

Comments

[pope-al.livejournal.com]

damn, is that why i have so much shit?

damn you disney!

:shakes fist:

[velvetechos.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. It's probably one of the reasons!

[pope-al.livejournal.com]

screw the saying "kill your television," because i love tv so...

i like "smash your toaster" better... and i have a white sunbeam toaster that looks like it's giving me some looks...

:gets hammer:

[velvetechos.livejournal.com]

iiiieeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! *runs over to save toaster* Man! PB&J on toasted bread rocks! How would you make do without a toaster?

[pope-al.livejournal.com]

that's what i got an oven for!

when i first moved in, i haven't had a toaster for like 2 years.

...and, pb&j on toast does own... my toaster better behave...

[velvetechos.livejournal.com]

You know, the entire time Ki was living in California, didn't have a toaster. And they're so cheap too! Don't know why couldn't seem to come up with one! Kept complaining about it too, until my ex decided to give me one for Christmas =-)~ That was silly.

[pope-al.livejournal.com]

i'll tell you... it's the little things... :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hallow_/]

Same message as Toy Story. Your toys love you, so don't make them sad by growing up and getting rid of them.

*shakes head*

your right...after watching these movies, I feel guilty for selling off old toys at tag sales.

[velvetechos.livejournal.com]

Yes. And the Velveteen Rabbit. Oh, Ki loves the Velveteen Rabbit.

[britlover.livejournal.com]

So that is what that movie is about. I never really quite understood it when I was little. All Disney movies have a bad message in them. I don't like Disney too much. They give kids, especially girls, the wrong message.

[velvetechos.livejournal.com]

They do! They expect us all the conform to these standards of beauty. Heh, no wonder Ki feels so ugly all the time, have always loved Disney. They even change history *glances at how they made Pocahontas look*

[britlover.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And the women is allways so submisive and dependent on the Hero (who is allways a man) to save her. It sucks. We should make our own kids movies were the woman is portrayed as more dominant and does not weight 90 pounds.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't help it. I tend to give my objects souls and feelings and then I feel bad.

And I've never seen the movie. That's just how I've always been. :P

--Jerry

[exotic-delerium.livejournal.com]

I remember that movie. I saw it once when I was young. Strange how childrens movies always have these hidden evil undertones.

[panic3627.livejournal.com]

There's a book called: An All Consuming Century by Gary Cross. My friend took a class this past semester about social economics? Well anyway, this book looks really good. I might go out and buy it. Explains why we are the way we are in regards to commercialism and materialistic values. It has pictures too! I mean photos of old ads and stuff like that. Melissa says that it is a good book. (The only book she actually read in the class...so it might be worth reading...)

[velvetechos.livejournal.com]

Ki also has one, called The MacDonaldization of Society, it's an amazing book.

[panic3627.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think MacDonald's is the Illuminati....but I'll check it out.

[batty-starr.livejournal.com]

It's funny when the vacum eats his cord.

[velvetechos.livejournal.com]

=P

[sed.livejournal.com]

I think that way and I've never seen the movie...only I'm more of a pack rat than a conspicuous consumer.

When I do RTVs (Return To Vendor items), the ones that say "Destroy" upset me. Customers come to the store with big expensive items, and some say RTV and return (I don't know what happens after that), or RTV and Destroy...the worst is Destroy Up To Max $, which symbolizes a brutal death to me.

It almost makes me cry.

Many times though, when a customer does return something, it's usually either a) the wrong size or b)they bought too much and are returning what was left of their project, and those are the ones that get another chance...dear god.

Now I'm about to cry.