DECA SPEECH

            America is the land of the Free, the land of Democracy, and the land of capitalist propaganda. Yes, propaganda it might sound absurd that there is a need for propagandas in a free nation, but our beliefs, cause, and attitude is all due to the propagandas spread by corporate moguls. The scary part is that it all started from the day we open our eyes until the day it closes.

            From the day we are born, our desires to be better than another human beings and consume everything in our path started. When our minds are still pure, we are bombarded with capitalist propaganda. Our parents bought us branded clothes and branded milk in order to keep us happy. Happy we don’t even know what happiness means by then! Our blind parents force us to watch “educational” TV shows such as Sesame street, Mr. Rogers, and Telletubbies to stimulate our developing brain. The stimulation educates us to be consuming machines. There are constant advertisement of toys that we hoard. We hoard toys that is basically useless and not necessary for survival: We can’t eat it or it wouldn’t even keep us warm.

            Then as we escape our preschool years we move to the elementary for more mind “stimulation”. We watched TV shows that has more complicated plots- basically more violence, anger, and greediness. Shows that introduces fashion and collectibles. What we see in these shows we copy in the playground. We want to have every toy in the ads- I mean kids crazy to have the gameboy advance, Barbie dolls, pokemon cards in order for them to say to their friends “You aint got this, I'm better than you, you’re my subordinate.” Have you saw the cartoon Pokemon, the plot of it is to have every pokemon in there is- it even has the theme song “ Gotta have them All.” Subconsciously the innocent kids that watch the show are force to buy in to the capitalist system of greediness. “I got to have everything.”

            Then after elementary we move on to Junior High and Senior High school. We believe we are more sophisticated, so we the TV programs we watch have more complex plots. Well it’s the same thing! MTV poisons the mind. Its shows us the life of the rich and the famous that we are so foolish to imitate. TV shows such as the real world makes us real fakes, and the Osbornes expands our vocabularies.

            After we receive our HS diploma, we get a job or get a degree in manipulation, I mean college degree. Why? to have more money, because since program to do so. what can I say - Propaganda in action.

            After all the years spreading the tenets of the corporate moguls, we can finally get a retirement plan. The irony is we again is manipulated to have this plans because we see the glamour of having free time and fun in leisure channel.

            After enjoying our selves in retirement, our heart will stop to beat, lungs fail, we die. but even in our death, the effect of the propaganda still lingers. What outfit should I wear in my coffin? would I look good in open casket? If I am cremated should my ashes be place on a gold or porcelain jar? and boy it should be fabulous to have Kurt Cobaine or Tupac Shakur as a neighbor.