Passport To Safety

Everyone who had a great childhood would remember watching Saturday morning cartoons. They can name their favorite super heroes and villains, the kind of cereals that were shown in commercials, the kind of toys that were there. Not everything of course but there would always be those toys and products that would stand out in this commercial bombardment. You see at a very early age our minds were already being exposed to suggestions.

We would be giving the promise that one product is better over the other and it would show in the sales of certain toys in the market even now. Capitalism would sink its insidious jaws into our suggestive little minds and there is nothing bad about that at all as the world is run by money and the spending and acquiring of it is all part of the lives we lead.

The fact of the matter is that even in our teens and adulthood we would be so affected by this commercial bombardment that it would mold our future spending. Yes, that is correct our future spending is dictated by our happy childhoods. So let us say that you like Superman’s logo design when you were young, certain studies would point that seeing the red, white and blue in another regardless if it is clothing, food products or furniture or real estate makes us more likely to buy the product rather than the colors that we usually would equate to our bad memories.

Children who grew watching the Disney classic Bambi where the little Fawns mother died via a hunter’s gunshot and realized that it was a bad memory had an unknown dislike for the color brown. They would spurn any logo design that would sport a deer's head or anything that had a shade or brown in it. Of course there are always exceptions to these rules and some of them might now have been affected at all but there is a number that have been. The point is that our great memories and our future spending have all been methodically affected by these Happy Saturday morning cartoons.

This sounds like a conspiracy but if you think about it have you actually seen a Saturday morning cartoon that is sad? Even cartoons of a disturbing nature are actually shown somewhere else and that particular time slot is always reserved for the Happy cartoons. The reason is that it would affect present and future spending. Children always relate to a person or a cause or ideal and their super hero/spokes person idol would always have a readily available toy or shirt or action figure to remind our little kids of that matter.