I am totally fascinated with humans, they never disappoint me, some are quite entertaining, some are quite intriguing, most are normal, but there are the one's who are predictable that are fun to observe you learn a lot about them. All through history people have been studied, analyzed, researched, and quite frankly programmed to respond or act in a particular way due to a situation or influence. Let me now explain, there have been focus groups for years trying to figure out what politician you will vote for and why, there are studies done to analyze how people respond to a crisis, war, economic fluxes in the stock market, national security, immigration, many more. Then there is the advertising industry, designed solely to analyze, study, conduct psychological research on how to get people to buy their products and continue to buy their products. They even have people who clean up bad press about their products incase they offend you the consumer. Now I will give you a project, while you are at the grocery store, Walmart, target, or wherever you shop make notes on which products are missing from the shelves. Yes I know about the obvious, toilet paper, disinfectant wipes, purell, paper towels, cleaning products, note here: that if you don't already have cleaning products in your home how often are you cleaning you home, something to think about next time you borrow the bathroom at someone's home. I'm talking more about food items trip to Walmart the other night revealed quite a lot about humans, this is a list of things I noticed missing from the shelves, bread, frozen pizza, french fries, (hot pockets, this company hasn't sold this many in years,) corn dogs, white castles burgers, pre made meals think TV dinners, pf chang meals, most any frozen throw in a microwave or oven, pre made spaghetti sauce, sugar, flour, cereal, lunch meat, potato chips, popcorn, cookies, crackers, bottled water, canned soups, ramen, canned tuna, are you getting an idea of what kinds of foods people are eating. Now let me tell you what there was plenty of, meat, chicken, beef, pork, turkey, seafood, fruits and vegetables, rice that requires cooking the old fashioned way. If it involved cooking it or seemed to be healthy for you there was plenty, good thing I love to cook from scratch, humans left me plenty to work with. In a time in this country when a large portion of the population is obese, overweight, has diabetes, has heart issues you would think that all the things good for you would be flying off the shelves but the items I saw gone looked more like food I ate as a teenager or what college kids live on. They say quarantine yourself for 2 weeks, since your going to be home with not much to do wouldn't this be the time to make good food choices rather than eating like you work 60 hours a week with no time to cook. Seeing what things were missing gave me information about what people were eating and how people shop all this is being analyzed as I write this by companies looking over their sales invoices so that incase of a next event now how much product to ship to stores and what price they can increase their products to. Seems like we as humans have been trained quite well over the years on how to react, what to buy and when to buy it. Powers that be have made us submissive so they can call themselves master. Just my opinion after an observation. Big hug to all, stay healthy.
4 years ago. March 16, 2020 at 9:21 AM