Sunday, September 2, 2012

The media-textile empire of Fox News and tight underpants



It is known that this empire has conditioned all governments since the beginnings of time. Or at least since it was created. All the media controlled by Fox chooses to broadcast bad news against the government running the country if they don´t give them some advantageous concessions. Alternately, it shuts up when the opposite occurs. In this way, it manages which current affaires arrive to the public opinion arena.
Some people, including me, tend to criticize the way Fox and other media conglomerates manage how people feel by choosing a positive or negative outlook of the reality. However, very few stops to think why Fox can affect people´s mood with bad news. That was the case until today.


Let's begin with a daily situation of life. A man comes out of the shower, goes to his drawer and decides to put on some new underpants he just bought because he wants to feel comfortable and important, and, as we all now, that can only be achieved by wearing new underpants. After a while of wearing them, he notes that they are a bit uncomfortable. Not because of the elastic, nor because of the area of ​​the buttocks... no, what´s wrong is the lack of space for his “friend”. This space is insufficient. At first, he finds comfort in thinking that, well, after all, he is so big that no underwear could hold what he has. But this does not last long as he remembers some porn actor who is really huge. He is “normal”.
The depression caused by this discovery makes him forget for a moment the discomfort from the underwear. After a while he remembers a classmate who he once “casually” saw in the locker room and says, "Well, at least, I'm not that small." The comforting feeling to regain manhood is counterproductive since now he returns to the difficult task of not thinking about the itch that causes the crowding down there.
Then gets entangled in the futile task of changing positions, sitting on one buttock more than on the other and vice versa, to lean forward, lean back and even try, in vain, to solve the problem with the ancient tactic of crossing legs and moving one of them to try to get some relief.
It is at this point that he realizes that he is scratching, he is trying to separate the underpants from his most treasured possession. It is at this time that he concludes that who sold him the underpants cheated him and sold him underpants with no design whatsoever. This infuriates him but what really irritates him is that there is no escape ... is the fact that market does not offers an acceptable option in this crucial item.
The question that arises is why there is so hard to find good underpants with enough space for any man who is not Asian. My father used to say that it was because women are the designers of men underwear. Thus, for obvious physical reasons, they cannot imagine what the problem is. Others argue that corporate greed is responsible for this social tragedy: using less fabric represents a significant cost savings on a garment so small. All these theories may have some logic but they are all wrong. For decades, Fox has been putting forward these theories in the hope that truth would not come to light.
The real reason is that by keeping the male population uncomfortable all day (this is the only garment that most have on ALL DAY LONG), tempers are more easily manipulated. Let´s clarify that they can be manipulated into anger, not into happiness. A guy stranded in a traffic jam generated by a group of protesters in summer, sitting in a car with a broken air conditioning and tight and sweaty underpants is more permeable to the fallacies spitted by the employees of the Empire about how bad things are in the war against terror.
From then on we all know the way: the gentleman gets down of the car, begins to insult the protesters, a friend of nature smoking pot with tired and small eyes climb hits him from behind screaming “you are an slave of the system” and runs to hide cowardly in the maze of people, the man returns to the car, pulls out a machete and smashes it against the head of a lady of considerable size due to her lack of interest in the western standard of beauty, the maze of people starts hitting our friend (this time in a more open and straightforward manner), the guy gets a heart attack...
Thanks to tight underpants, the Fox Media-textil Empire has not only the news on the war against terror but also about the man who killed an enviromentalist and then got a heart attack. Then in the evening edition of the news, they invite specialists who explain why these people protest against progress, why there is so much intolerance in today society, why there is such a social fragmentation and whether the local or the national government is to blame. But this don´t stop there. No ... then at the weekend in Fox Tools, we find other group of experts to demystify the poor machete, which was made to weed the field, not to kill poor people in the 5th avenue. In Fox Techy, two nerds argue that violent video games are not the cause of the "Machete-Guy of the 5th Avenue." (there´s no need to say that this nickname was created by a journalist as well).
Finally, in Fox History, two scholars open the debate: which changes in the use of the machete have occur over time? The thesis is that before Obama, people wouldn´t use a machete to kill someone else, but now things are out of control.
In short, we see how the alliance between Fox and big textile companies generates all this. That is why the government aims to improve the working conditions of the employees of the textile industry over China. Better working conditions will bring better quality in underpants. Better quality in underpants will free society from the effects of a moody guy with a machete.  This is the only way to defeat the media-textile empire of Fox News.

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