See above: it's passed on from parent --> child via magical
psych processes generally lumped-together and called dumbth.
But since you report that you were Genuinely Surprised\ufffd to hear - quite later on - about the effects of the years of greaseburgers (despite all the lore which sane people kept tryin to tell the reglar folks since ~Day 1) will try and recap for ya:
You Know about Advertising! - there is no field I can think of better able to Teach That than "IT" (except the peddling of pharm-chem crap to all and sundry, including lazy, undereducated Drs.). OK Few fields anyway.. which more often teach the simple fact that:
ALL ADS ARE LIES, in at least SOME respect. They are neither 'information' nor knowledge: they are lies to get you to buy Anything you are stupid enough to be seduced into imagining that you Want == Need! next or ... ... very soon: MUST Have. <<
No. "it wasn't brought to your attention" ... with a lead 2x4, and on a 15-minute cycle - or whatever is your attention span (?) And if you subordinated all ideas of personal care, survival - to learning cockamamie shit like Vee Bee and hash tables?
WTF do ya think that makes You? (NOT 'makes': McDonalds Eat Me! or Chevrolet built-like-a-Rock for Rock-heads or Merck Buy My Nostrum + read the side effects Vols. I and II)
In case it hadn't dawned yet on the deepest levels:
Bizness Itself is about the seduction of the unwary and especially - the unteachable. (Even "business" BB, Before Billy, was identical: just less rapacious and less obviously run on pure greed 24/7) Just.. check the "mission statements" if this is news to ya.
As in {sheesh}
Ashton
