in ability to communicate

Ok another one for MJ...

So was talking about cigarette coupons or the lack of on the backs of cigarette packs... P was complaining about wanting a coupon on the back of the pack vs the damn downloaded app.. that was a discussion on marketing in a capitalist world and how apps only track and collect meta data to be sold off or pieced together from other companies to then sell to other companies.. apps are of the devil. The internet is nothing but one big tracking machine and people are fairly dumb about to what extent this goes despite years of the government abuses and news reports about such. The evidence is there in plain site.. Patriot Act.. being one beacon of how the fuck did you think they were going to start this.. and and... there is no current legislation in place that forces a company or corporation to explain itself as long as it can HIDE behind "prudent legal measures". Seriously people need to get a fucking education. We are the dumbest motherfuckers around... You have those who are generally in power.. evil controlling mother fuckers... the ones who do run it all from banks and corporations... their puppets in their pocket writing the laws to make them richer.

Only to have a very small percentage realize that we have to play a long game.. otherwise if we don't..

Sisyphus.. all of a sudden I'm reminded of Sisyphus... perpetual work with never an accomplishment. His only break in being to go back to push it up the hill again. However I give you this.. the rock never goes back down.. he always sees the top of the hill, but it's never in reach.

So thin in turn went growing up around smokers and how it used to be readily available. Oh and me tying to educate P that she is no longer the target demographic and/or they went with a different marketing strategy and/or marketing budget cuts... all of which could be a result in the waning popularity of smoking over all. Anywho.. so smoking was popular and they once were a huge part of American culture with the 70's/80's being a death knell for it.

Then the demise of marketing for smoking in the 90's(? Joe Camel).

They had less money, need to keep targeting their supporters.

So any any who..

Made a comment about how I quit, one of the reasons was the flavor of cigarettes had changed over the years... I was recalling the Mad Men show and one of the characteristics made mention about Lucky Strike was that it was toasted... and it got me to think that yeah that was a flavor that seemed to be missing after all these years... I quit before moving out to NC.. had a few hits , attempts at a cigarette here and there, aside from the 4 pack stint while jobless in NC. That's been it.. nothing since.

I was wondering if tobacco companies flavor has changed over the years...

all of this got me to something that I forgot what the actual catalyst was for writing all of this.. damn food timer! and MJ..

Maybe it had something to do with how I read the situation again.. all this information collected over the years... and how it boils down... how I connect everything together..

oh.. this is what it was...

So smoking is a typical fuck you to parents and authorities... because you tell me why I can't do it...  and why you do it..

the in ability for a parent to adequately express to their child what the decisions are that go into this whole process.. the child rebels because he see a hypocrisy being put forth.. with no adequate explanation as from what usually is "because I said so"...  this is the worst answer ever.

It basically says to the child don't question me on this, despite the saying I'm sure quite a few parents give. You can come to me about ANYTHING, once we put a limit on this we start telling the children that they can't come to you about anything and they become selective about what they say to you.

Now I wonder why that is... how does the brain get to the end of that process... when it decides if something is selective (a secretive thought?)  or isn't.  Fight or flight! Friend or foe! Good outcome or Bad outcome! We tend to share things worth being shared and not others... why is that? What are the parameters around this? Is this part of a larger system of interconnected attributes?


Now I'm beginning to see what "forms" could possibly be about.. maybe possibly.. need to compare notes.


So yeah.. the inability to communicate through tobacco and how it affects our children.

This also gives us an inclination about why we prefer binary questions... boy/girl... black/white... yes/no... up/down... and so on.

The brain hates to compute things... laziness is inherent in us... look at animals.. they only do what they have to to survive... we're the only fucks mucking it up.