Grampa offers some of his ideas on livingin this fast paced commercialized society.
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Plucked from his personal diary of thoughts . . .I may not go down in history
But I will go down, eventually!
So weep or chuckle.
Or scoff, see if I care.
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- #1 Shopping tip: Buy where they will cheat you the least.
- Advertising can sell junk as needs, garbage as food.
- Creativity is difference. Difference is not creativity.
- Democracy - Yes! Free enterprise - not this way!
- FASHION - Unneeded. FAMINE - Unacceptable.
- Foxymoron: A store's loss leader is your loss when you leave with a bundle of overpriced goods.
- How much more would you have if you didn't buy things which you later wish you hadn't bought?
- I coulda lived longer and stronger but for the bad food.
- If acting cool were replaced with acts of kindness wouldn't it be a better world?
- If my call is important to you - answer the stupid phone!
- Instead of driving your SUV to the gym for a workout just jog there and back.
- Marketing 5 Step Strategy: Attract. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
- Marketing kids - shaping society. Fix this now!
- My antidepressant: Accept myself as I am. Accept others as they are.
- My two favorites on TV are MUTE and OFF.
- Outlaw excessive and deceptive advertising for social healing.
- Excessive profit and over-consumption: 2 fast lanes on the freeway to social rot.
- Relax, smile. Take awhile.
- Styles promote a competitive environment but friendship grows easier in a noncompetitive environment.
- Take a break and meditate.
- The only sure thing about this week is Saturday night it will be gone.
- The trouble with our economic system is that marketing ingenuity often beats product ingenuity.
- There's much to fear - but only if we allow it.
- There are two kinds of sorry: Sorry I did wrong. Sorry I got caught.
- We are how we have allowed ourselves to be programmed.
- What not to do is sit and stew.
- C'mon government, get interested in people so people can get interested government!
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