Re: Are we protected from Junk Food Corporations?

From: MikeL (MikeL_at_elnet.com)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: 2 Sep 2004 21:32:06 -0500

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 03:43:30 +0200, "Lictor"
<ghostmlNOSPAM-REMOVE@online.fr> wrote:

>"MikeL" <MikeL@elnet.com> wrote in message
>news:j8dfj0pl0oncipe1fr96j610q2dkg6veoc@4ax.com...
>> I was riding my bicycle around the neighborhood sometimes 5 miles to
>> an arcade or just playing in backyards. I truly feel sorry for kids
>> today that live in these cookie cutter houses that were built on a
>> corn field.
>
>We come back to the problem of urbanism... We are just beginning to perceive
>how deeply how we build our cities and villages can impact both daily life
>and society as a whole.
>
>> Watching a ton of TV is
>> simply a symptom of having nothing to do.
>
>Actually, watching TV is a symptom of being afraid of having nothing to do.
>How many people nowadays are still able to stop for 10 minutes and do
>nothing at all? I mean, sitting down, staring at the sky and daydreaming. I
>read an interview from a movie director (Agnès Jaoui) who was saying that we
>should not be afraid to let kids have nothing to do; that's during these
>idle moments that they can put their imagination to work and think for
>themselves. Well, that's not happening anymore. Nothing to do = switch on
>TV, switch off brain.
>
Good point, reflection or self reflection can be very difficult for a
lot of people. Imagination and daydreaming are a healthy part of
growing up. I remember reading that people burn less calories
watching TV than doing nothing at all. I remember a philsopher saying
"the unexamined life is not worth living", well we have a lot of
those.

I remember many of those nothing to do moments growing up which
involved simply sitting inside a tractor tire. Sometimes there was
even someone in the tire next to mine.