What's Off About Having Prescription Ads on Tv?

Is it just me or is there something seriously off that pharmaceutical companies – that’s drugs kids – are allowed to push their meds while we’re trying to watch the evening news? Given the fact that anyone with index fingers and an internet connection can order these goodies directly and circumvent the physician entirely is more disturbing yet.

The ads seem innocuous enough and usually feature happy people doing all sorts of happy normal people things unless the actors are together as a couple in which case they are typically holding hands, dancing or spinning, the only exception being an ad for depression medication in which case it will always be raining outside the depressed person’s house as they sit despondently waiting for their prescription to arrive that they ordered over the internet.

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We Need to Walk Around With Devices Stuck to our Heads, Why?

One would need to be from the planet Head up your Butt to not notice that people of every conceivable ilk have a device of some sort stuck onto the sides of their heads. The question though, is why?

It seems that we have come to think that we need to be available 24 hours a day, every day including Kwanzaa, Pentecost and the evening before the Daylight Savings changeover. Now in the past, only people awaiting a heart transplant or an organ of any kind needed to be near the phone for obvious reasons. Doctors, lawyers and drug dealers needed to be in touch – that is available by electronic means and their means were usually carried in a pocket or clipped to the side of their trousers or pajama pants in the case of the transplant people.

Only the CIA and Secret Service paraded their electronic devices for the whole entire world to see, placing them apart from the common people. We never knew what they heard or if they ever even got a call at all – but we knew them by their devices. Now however, our entire population has rectangles stuck to the sides of their heads, rarely if ever getting a call.

Living in California, I understand the need for wireless communication while driving, as we can now get a hefty ticket for taking a phone call while we’re driving. Fine, but once you get out of the car and head to the burger stand, take the thing off. In line at the checkout at Walmart, take the thing off. Walking thru the mall – same thing – take the thing off.

People, you have begun to think that if for one instant you aren’t available to share your vast knowledge or answer the burning questions of the Universe, the world as you know it will end. More likely though, you are simply panicked at the thought of sitting or walking quietly alone, unavailable, with your thoughts. What a concept.