Random Thoughts #15

I just saw a jeep commercial using 2pac's California Love song.  I've seen a lot of commercials using stuff created by us: our slang (even though they are about 10 years late with it), They used a rendition of Nina Simone's Feelin' Good in a pharmaceutical commercial. It's still really weird to me how much they use us and our likenesses to advertise whatever they need to advertise. It's like they can't think for themselves. I know what it looks like when they are left to their own devices from what advertisements I saw in Utah, and it's rather gross and sad. But still... it's like. They need us.  But we have shown and proven that we dont need them over the years. The civil rights generation needed them so they could feel good and accepted. We don't, and shouldn't. I think  that's what makes us different than older generations: we will do us regardless.