pudge's Journal: THINK ... or Don't

I was watching VH1 Classic the other night (I was flipping around and was mesmerized by Enuff Z'nuff) and then a commercial came on, and it showed these high school girls fawning over the new boy in school, and then he threw his soda can in the trash instead of recycling it. The girls then lose interest. Then the voiceover came up: "The world is changing. Think! Go to think.mtv.com."

That's right. Think! Think about how you will be ostracized unless you mindlessly follow the crowd!

To be fair

[robi2106]

the only marketing the MTV crowd knows how to follow is the threat of being uncool unless you follow the crowd. They are just using the only tool they know.

jason

ummm...

[John Harrison]

Are you claiming that there are good reasons to not recycle when it costs you nothing to do so?

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[pudge]

Are you claiming that there are good reasons to not recycle when it costs you nothing to do so?

Yes. Recycling is actually wasteful in many cases: it costs us money and resources for no, or lesser, gain. Recycling aluminum is not wasteful, but that is why they pay us to do it; but if you don't want to do it, who cares? That's as good a reason as any: just because you don't want to.

Let's put it this way: the resources wasted by these girls on makeup and clothes are far more damaging than what he wasted by

Kinda like the signs...

[Miguelito]

on the side of the recycle trucks here in San Diego.. they have the "Recycle... or else..." logo. WTF is that supposed to mean? It's already been shown in studies that, aside from aluminum, almost all recycling actually nets a loss. Pretty much always in money, often in resources as well as some things take a lot of power or chemicals to recycle. Aluminum is the one that does actually make money, partly due to the nature of the metal and how much easier it is to reuse.

You're missing the point, so is MTV.

[Timex]

The girls "lose interest" not because the guy wasn't recycling or anything. No.

They were feigning loss of interest because they were pissed. Now they have to resort to "trash picking" to get that can, so they can recycle it themselves and get that $0.05 refund. "Trash picking" has its own stigma attached to it, because it implies a lower status on the social ladder.

Kids: It's all about money.

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[pudge]

Oh my. That was funny. :-)

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[Timex]

Oh my. That was funny. :-)

I'm glad you were amused. In some perverse sort of way, I was actually kinda serious. :)

Of course, having said all that, I don't get MTV, and I haven't seen the commercial.