The Pursuit of HAPPYness: San Fran Bans the Happy Meal

I agree completely. The toy is tyranny. Just like any other “free gift with purchase” is an awful act — how do you think Sadam Hussein got his minions to do his bidding? He said, “but wait, there’s more. You also get Ginsu knives and a bamboo steamer.

Remember, we can’t make up our own minds, and so big mean corporations like McDonalds have a responsibility to NOT try to market their products to their customers. For example, it’s a horrible tyrannical act for them to have a clown that kids might like — the horrors, the horrors. Plus, this dastardly McEvil company put in playgrounds to lure in the children, just like the hook-nosed “candy man” in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. This author has revealed a prime example of Toy Terrorism precisely because parents don’t make the decisions for their kids, and they have zero will power to resist the opium of the cheap. Plastic. Toy.

But there’s a bright side. I think we should take the strategy of Darth McDonald’s and run with it. We should have thrown a bauble in with the Health Care Reform bill. If Obama had added a plastic Boener Bobble-Head, suddenly all the Republicans would have been mesmerized, and no longer able to think for themselves. Genius!

Yes, I love the analysis here because I, too, believe that we are all mindless, hapless victims. Sheep. And, we should have no parental responsibility for our actions.
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