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When I Was A Kid, An Ad Aired On TV That I Didn’t Fully Get. Now, I Want Us All To Watch It Again.

I saw this commercial as a child and appreciated everything about it but the message. It looked fun, cool, exciting, and smart. What I didn’t process was the idea of an industry of death because I had no relationship with the concept. Now this haunts me, and I want everyone who watched it too young…

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Rafael Casal

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