Advertising
Mar. 3rd, 2008 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI've always hated advertising. Advertising is lies. Advertising is immoral.
Isn't that obvious? I'm always surprised when people are taken in by it. How can they be so simple-minded?
A breakfast cereal will make you happy? An air freshener will make you happy? Oh, for pity's sake!
A car is a tin box for getting from place to place. All cars are the same. Some have added doodads, some don't. If you want to know which is the best value for money read Which.
The ads never show the car jolting about among modern urban traffic. They show it gliding down desert roads with nary another car in sight. You want that sense of freedom? You're not going to get it from anything you can put in your garage. Quit your high-pressure job and live on baked beans, move to New Mexico, dream.
Isn't that obvious? I'm always surprised when people are taken in by it. How can they be so simple-minded?
A breakfast cereal will make you happy? An air freshener will make you happy? Oh, for pity's sake!
A car is a tin box for getting from place to place. All cars are the same. Some have added doodads, some don't. If you want to know which is the best value for money read Which.
The ads never show the car jolting about among modern urban traffic. They show it gliding down desert roads with nary another car in sight. You want that sense of freedom? You're not going to get it from anything you can put in your garage. Quit your high-pressure job and live on baked beans, move to New Mexico, dream.
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Bad News
Date: 2008-03-03 12:12 pm (UTC)The first step is realizing that there is nothing of value to be gained from advertising, unless, of course, you are the the one making a profit said advertising. The second step is realizing that we are, each of us, responsible for our own happiness.
Celebrate.
Re: Bad News
Date: 2008-03-03 03:06 pm (UTC)