I was looking at a picture the other day of a women who weighed more after regular exercise, with weight training, but looked lighter than her before picture and weighed less. I've heard that this is true but hadn't seen an actual picture of it. And then...
Doubt...disbelief..and skepticism moved my brain into a process of thought that made me miss the days of old when pictures couldn't be airbrushed, photo shopped or easily altered. As I stood readying myself for the day I sucked in my stomach posed and let it out...two completely different reflections with the mere act of a deep breathe in and out. Perhaps that's how they got that picture that now seemed burned in my mind.
Now that I was on a rabbit trail of thought I followed it, when did everything seen, heard, pictured, advertised, etc., stop having even a grain of truth in it? Why can't we just tell the truth to sell our products and dare I say it...why don't consumers demand truth from advertisers and retailers. My guess...we want what they tell us to be true and so we buy in, filled with hope for that easy solution to solve our problems, we want the reward without the work and because we've become this "lie to me with the hope of truth" generation, we buy, we find out it does not work and then without complaint we wait...until the next promised filled perfect solution advertiser seduces us and off to bed we go with a smile on our faces. So sad.
Shouldn't we be tired of being lied too? Don't we have the power to stop this perpetual exploitation of our wallets? You know the answer is yes.
Technology is wonderful, deception, not so great. I realize we have to take the good with the bad, I just wish that a picture was still worth a thousand words. I would love knowing that what I see is actually what the photographer saw. I'd also like it if advertisers still had to tell the truth at the risk of being closed down for good. Scams have become the normal practice, lies are acceptable and worse yet...to be expected, advertisers who "stretch the truth" do it with wonderfully creative flair and I find myself wondering why they couldn't expend the same amount of energy on being honest. When did it stop being necessary to be legitimate?
I genuinely miss the truth and the absence of it has me concerned. What will become of a generation who has to doubt everything they hear?
Doubt...disbelief..and skepticism moved my brain into a process of thought that made me miss the days of old when pictures couldn't be airbrushed, photo shopped or easily altered. As I stood readying myself for the day I sucked in my stomach posed and let it out...two completely different reflections with the mere act of a deep breathe in and out. Perhaps that's how they got that picture that now seemed burned in my mind.
Now that I was on a rabbit trail of thought I followed it, when did everything seen, heard, pictured, advertised, etc., stop having even a grain of truth in it? Why can't we just tell the truth to sell our products and dare I say it...why don't consumers demand truth from advertisers and retailers. My guess...we want what they tell us to be true and so we buy in, filled with hope for that easy solution to solve our problems, we want the reward without the work and because we've become this "lie to me with the hope of truth" generation, we buy, we find out it does not work and then without complaint we wait...until the next promised filled perfect solution advertiser seduces us and off to bed we go with a smile on our faces. So sad.
Shouldn't we be tired of being lied too? Don't we have the power to stop this perpetual exploitation of our wallets? You know the answer is yes.
Technology is wonderful, deception, not so great. I realize we have to take the good with the bad, I just wish that a picture was still worth a thousand words. I would love knowing that what I see is actually what the photographer saw. I'd also like it if advertisers still had to tell the truth at the risk of being closed down for good. Scams have become the normal practice, lies are acceptable and worse yet...to be expected, advertisers who "stretch the truth" do it with wonderfully creative flair and I find myself wondering why they couldn't expend the same amount of energy on being honest. When did it stop being necessary to be legitimate?
I genuinely miss the truth and the absence of it has me concerned. What will become of a generation who has to doubt everything they hear?
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