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BT - 09-07-95 Expires - 10-07-95 Page 4 • The Battalion Thursday • September/ f Investing in laziness As part of a leisurely society Americans are easily led into infomercial addiction IT SLICES, IT DICES, IT FLRMBES. IT’S fl CRN OPENER, H HRNDY-DRNDV HflCKSniU, & R RUSSIAN SPV LINK. IT E,RINDS COFFEE, DOES UJINDOIDS, MAKES fl GREAT BERN DIP, AND CORRECTLY T he Internet. The J. Crew Catalog. Telephone regis tration on the beloved A&M phone information system. McDon ald’s delivery. Let’s face it — Amy Uptmor Columnist we are a lazy society. It all be gan with the remote control, which abolished the need to move ourselves from the couch and made us realize how com fortable the couch was and how we don’t want to leave it. So now we order food. We or der clothes. Many of us do re search for anything and every thing through our computers. With e-mail, we don’t have to walk five steps out the door to mail a letter. Many people don’t even go to work anymore. In stead, they communicate with their bosses through their com puters at home. Most technological advances that keep us locked inside are helpful, but I ran into one of the more frightening tools of lazi ness on my last trip home. I returned home to find my traditional American home clut tered with a bread-making machine, a food dehydrator and a Nordic track (or some other fitness machine subtly resem bling a torture device — I never can keep all of them straight). I had to face one of my worst fears — my family had been hit by the infomercial bug. Infomercials are possibly the saddest thing to ever happen to American society. The concept of buying things off the televi sion is not what is bad. But the concept of buying cubic zirconi um rings and powerless meat thawers is pathetic. And most items, on average, can be bought for three easy payments of $49.95. Even worse are the masses that buy friends — pardon me, psychic friends — at the cost of about $3.99 a minute. Society has delved so low that individu als in need of support actually take comfort in a counseling ser vice that, among others, LaToya Jackson endorses. The fact that a fraction of peo ple find entertainment value 30-minute commercials shoul: be reason enough for alarm,S ciety has complained aboutc? mercials that last 30 seconds calling them a nuisance. But now. people not only watch in fomercials, but many viewers buy the expensive, worthless crap they vend. Sounds likere son enough for governmentin tervention to me. So I’m concerned about the state of society. Sure, there are worse things going on in this world, but infomercials say a Te co about how blind and easily-led society has become. What will society’s next tool of convenience be? Will it be mail-order groceries? When will doctors return to house calls? Whatever it may be, wekee getting closer to the day when we will have no need whatsoevei to leave our houses except to share in the joy of gathering with our friends. Unless, of course, we’ve all k come too content with chatting on the phone with our psychic companions. Amy Uptmor is a sem journalism maf HIS MFh GQMM Presents / ' BfetStj 1 JERBV JEFF WELKER Benefiting the United Way September 9, 1995 FIJI HOUSE Gates Open at 6:00 p.m. Tickets $8.00 in Advance; $10.00 at the Door On Sale at Cavender’s, Marooned, Double Quick and Rolling Ridge COPY: LizzC ORN ER 1710 George Bush Drive 693-0610 • Fax (409) 693-1367 KA© Double Quick Food Stores 4501 Wellborn 691-2639 AW Harwood's BBQ & Catering (406) 764-9323 Rolling Ridge Gnooary 3698 N. Graham College Stilton, TX 77645