my overly thought out response to a commercial by coca cola

(the transcript of an audio message i recorded) 

I just saw this commercial by Coke and Pepsi and a few other brands, and it like scared me a little bit. I don't know, it was, it was just like a very 1984, feel like that book that everybody reads in high school It was like basically saying that they're all working together now or whatever to make some sugar free options for every drink. And in the commercial, it states multiple times that "the more choices, the better!"

 And it reminded me not only of the idea that people make choices every day according to their morals, but also that not every choice that we make is informed. So I initially disagreed that more choices are better because in my mind, I was like, "but wait, it's bad to trust these companies.They've been working together this whole entire time. They're owned by the same fucking dudes." So I thought like, maybe more choice isn't better. 

Maybe we should collectively stick to small businesses that only exist in our communities and eliminate the choices that create a lack of simplicity. But then I was like, "whoa, girl, that's like getting rid of free will slow your fucking roll." 

Yeah, brain. You're right. So what is the alternative? Eliminating uninformed choice by requiring companies to be 100% transparent? But by doing this, each company would be required to leak every single piece of data about their products, which is also not good because it could lead to the recreation and exploitation of these products. That's completely anti capitalism, right?

The only other thing that I could come up with after some time sitting with my thoughts, which I do a lot now that I don't have social media like Facebook or Instagram, is that each person should research extensively into the products that they buy.

"But how we're all busy???? we all have jobs. We can't just pause and spend hours of our day just to look into the side effects of things like Coke and Pepsi and and polyester or whatever!!"

Okay yeah um, I'm at a loss, so maybe we should travel back to our childhood, backtrack to when time was a little simpler Do you guys remember the old TV commercials where everything was $19.99? and you could get a bunch of cool stuff bundled in for an exclusive price today or whatever if you called on the phone and made the order.

 I really think that that's when stuff started to become a little bit murky.

So what is bad about having commercials for a million different products, though? It's fun, exciting, fantastic, even entertaining at times. I mean, I've seen some pretty cool commercials, but 

it can become really overwhelming after a few years of this or a decade....

Oh, cable's so boring now. 

What about social media though? Social media is like the next new thing.

 Let's market on there. 

Oh, boring. Okay, what about YouTube?

 Let's just amp up the ads. Everyone loves YouTube.

Oh.....streaming services.....

 oh shit! we got cable again! No fucking way, we can just put the ads on the streaming services!!!

Do you understand my point now?It's weird. I don't really know what point it is I'm making, but it's weird. Whatever it is, it's....it's just weird. So how do I figure out what argument I'm even trying to make? Is this an anti AI argument, anti marketing, anti coke, anti...I don't know, just anti American????

No, but I don't think it's just me either. So what is an informed choice? What does that mean in today's time?

Now I'm going off script. I don't have any more words in front of me to read. That was the beginning. 

Um, so I think that an informed choice to me, it reminds me of that episode of "The Good Place", where the judge character who judges everyone good or bad basically says, "well, no one has been getting into heaven."

And the characters are like, "why?"

 And they send her down to the earth basically  to live among the humans and try to make choices that are good so that she goes to heaven when she dies, so that they can prove their innocence or whatever.

Well, the judge decided that in today's time, with everything going on, it's too hard to make good decisions that are like informed choices because like when you buy a tomato from the store, you don't know where that tomato came from. Like you don't get to talk to the handler in the truck that delivered the tomatoes and talk to the people in the field that harvested the tomatoes.It's like a chain of indirect.... indirect. Um...  God, I'm showing my horrible vocabulary....A chain of indirect misfortune! I guess that is what I'm trying to say.

 It's like, we're not choosing to do horrible things, but by association, the things that everyone does day to day are really, really fucking bad.Whether you buy the organic tomato or whether you buy the not organic tomato, which by the way, all of the tomatoes are organic. 

But when you order on a website, like, everybody likes to complain about, "oh, Shein is so terrible. Temu is terrible."

 But, you know, the clothes that you buy from other places also have, like, slavery, like borderline slavery.If  you're wearing a T-shirt right now, chances are you don't know where the T-shirt came from, unless you spent, like,$1 million to get it from some fancy company that, like, specifically  doesn't do anything bad, which I'm sure that they still do, because it's all owned by the same fucking people like, it's all owned by the same fucking people everything that we buy is inherently bad. A bad choice is attached to every single product that we own.

And so when I'm seeing this commercial on the TV, it scares the shit out of me because I'm seeing  "more choices great more choices"

 but actually instead of the initial thought that I had where it was like, maybe we should eliminate all these crazy choices and stick to simple things like small businesses. No!! because these big organizations started out as small businesses whose community loved their product so much that they expanded into these huge corporations!!

 But when you expand into a huge corporation, sometimes the leaders of those corporations can lose sight of what's important. 

Communities, family, treating your customers like they're your neighbors, treating your customers like you are in tune with them because you are also a customer, you are also a consumer.But when it becomes a point where you're so far up, you forget that you were once a consumer and you're just a producer. You're just cranking out products, you're just making money.That's all.

 It is just like Taylor Swift, I mean, notice how her music was so wonderful when she was just starting out, like even when she moved into pop, but she became so surface level because she lost tune of her audience.She lost tune of what it's like to be a real person and exist in a real society, where everyone is not surrounding you, taking pictures of you all the time, where everyone is not just trying to get in your pants because " you're Taylor fucking Swift", 

which I don't fault her for that at all. Because I love Taylor Swift. I think she's really fucking cool.I think that she has done a wonderful job dealing with the cards that she's been dealt.

 But even people like Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber who has been known for suffering a lot in his mental health because of his exposure to celebrities, to Hollywood, to Diddy, to all these people. And it's because they were neglected as children and put into this world that is completely different than ours. 

No one in normal society has any grasp on what it is like to experience that And these consumers continue to buy this idea put out by these record labels, by these artists that they are the same as us, but they're not!! they just arent. They're completely different. And that's not bad, but for us to continue to give them our money. We're making an uninformed choice,

 because it's not harmful.If they're honest about it,

 if they come out and they say, or if the common sense decides, hey, they're not like everybody else, they're celebrities, we should treat them as such.They don't have the same perspective that we have. they just, they have a completely different reality is what I'm trying to say.

But the labels and the celebrities and the social media market and whatever they try to make us think that they are normal people, that they think normal thoughts. Blah, blah, blah, which yes, they were. But they're shopping at different stores, they're buying different food, they're, they're eating different products, they're going different places.

The perspective of this person and me will be different! This is not bad!

 I am not across the street from fucking Taylor Swift. I will never know what that's like, because I'm not a celebrity. Because I, like others, the majority, exist in the normal world and go to work and cook dinner and look up recipes on recipe websites and watch YouTube with no ad blocker and see commercials where I'm being told by an out of touch company that "more choices are better." 

Yeah, more choices are better when they are informed choices!!! When I know before watching that that Coke and Pepsi and ginger ale and whatever else are owned by the same person I am making the informed choice to drink the product or not to drink that product. 

But to a person who is just now becoming exposed to that, they don't get it! They don't understand that these companies are trying to exploit the psychological need for relativity!!

 THERE IT IS! THERE IS MY POINT!!! Obviously, I, as another human am going to want to relate to another person because that's just human nature. I want to relate to someone else. And these marketing agencies are trying to recreate relation in their commercials.It's literally basic marketing strategy, but it's harmful because it's a lie, 

it's a lie and if it wasn't a lie, okay, fine, sure relate to me, whatever I mean, Taylor Swift, you can be relatable! sure, go ahead, sure relate to me.

You were once in this position!

but were you??? because your dad bought all your things before you got famous. 

So were you in this position or were you set up to be relatable? Why is it that everything that is centralized in the mainstream media is set up to be relatable?It's not real, it's set up, it's literally a set up. Coke and Pepsi and fucking Canada Dry are all owned by the same motherfuckers. You really fucking think that everyone knows that????? Obviously they don't, because you're literally on YouTube saying, "oh, well, now we're working together, motherfucker, you've been working together this whole time you've been working together"

 this whole fucking time what y'all been working together since day fucking one!!! owned by the same motherfuckers!!

 That's it. That's, that's all.I guess. I don't know where I was going with that. But it's really the same thing with, like, AI, or something. AI is not relatable. It's literally terrible. Like, it sucks. Boycott AI. 

bye sorry this was long