THE CURE FOR COUNTERFEIT

The world is officially a strange place but only if we buy what’s being sold by the opportunists we hear, read and watch.When you have a chance, listen to the radio talk show hosts who squeeze in ads during the broadcast trying to convince you that this ticket broker or that energy drink will “do the trick”. No wonder we’re so skeptical. The strangeness of the world is due to something as old as humans themselves – LYING.

My wife and I were talking about how tabloids malign celebrities like Mariah Carey for gaining too much weight then deride Nicole Kidman for being too thin. Surely the writers, those “gators”, couldn’t be genuinely interested in generating a grassroots movement bent on restoring the said icon to healthy living. No, it’s much more pedestrian than that. It’s just about selling magazines or whatever the tangible product may be. The headline, story and picture will draw your attention while you’re in the Express Lane at Vons. And this is not to fault the opportunist for he/she is only a fallible human. Seriously. If I’ve learned anything it’s to hate the game more than the player of it if I must hate anything. In other words, I’m not so concerned with media telling young girls that they need to be a size -1 to be attractive. I’m more concerned with getting the truth into the young girls so they have what it takes to resist such nonsense. Learn what the truth looks like and you won’t even bat an eye at a counterfeit.