The way things have evolved in this day and age in the world of media and television, it has become almost expected that we get a good dose of irrelevancy, dare I say stupidity, at least three or four times per day.

The amount of idiotic advertising techniques that are being broadcast live to a sea of viewers that either don’t care or don’t realize what they are watching has become a constant thorn in the side of what I like to call the integrity of rational thought.

Now what kind of a rant would this be without some sort of example to back it all up? So, just to show I’m not full of it, why don’t we go over some of the more prominent examples of public mockery?

The first bit of advertising vomit I have in mind is none other than our good friends at McDonald’s. The newest and perhaps most-advertised product in the arsenal of this massive faceless corporation is what many have called an “upgrade” to the chicken McNugget.

They are known as Chicken Selects, and supposedly they are the greatest thing McDonald’s has ever offered the public. They bring with them not only new types of dipping sauce, but also a slew of commercials that are meant to make you want to go out and find someone who has already got some, because, apparently the only way to truly enjoy these marvels of the chicken world is through blatant thievery and involves betraying those you trust for the sake of fast food chicken.

Besides the obvious sarcasm laced throughout the last paragraph, you might also have noticed that throughout each of the many commercials put out by McDonald’s there simply isn’t anybody interested in actually stealing his food, despite the fact that the poorly dressed office worker is trying so desperately to keep the Chicken Selects for himself.

One would wonder just why a company would create a commercial that not only misleads the public by advertising a product that is by no means as good as it is portrayed, but also insults itself by having nobody in the commercial actually trying to steal the product in question.

I recently bought an order of Chicken Selects and offered them to five different people. At the end of the day I had to throw them out. It would appear that they aren’t too difficult to hang onto after all.

Enough of McDonald’s, let us move onto the next subject: Subway. More than just Subway really, but any company that is attempting to cash in on the Atkins Diet in order to suck money out of a public too ignorant to know what’s being sold to them.

I’m sure you have seen it around: the phrase “Atkins Friendly” plastered on every window and every sign. Enticing you to purchase from them because, “The Atkins Diet is the only real diet that works.” I’m not going to get into the details of the Atkins Diet, but it is by no means the only diet that works. If anything, it is the stupidest diet in existence today, which is not necessarily a problem when considering the type of people being taken in by the diet are already on the bottom of their class in terms of IQ.

In my hardly humble opinion, the Atkins Diet is a cheap ploy at making money; the businesses using this angle to save themselves from bankruptcy are exploiting a public that is too lazy to know what is good for them. The diet itself should be considered a crime against humanity, and anyone on the diet deserves what they get.

All the facts boil down to one ultimate meaning. The advertising system in use today is focusing more and more on the stupidity of the public, and their inability to think for themselves. Major corporations such as McDonald’s and Subway are just two of the countless businesses out there just aching to take money from you.

My only advice to you: think for yourself and you’ll always be better off in the end. As always, I am the Accordion Cowboy, and this has been I’m Mentioning…