Advertising

[poliphilo]

I'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. 

Comments

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

I haven't owned a television in six years. When I do watch television, and therefore have to see more aggressive advertising than the passive stuff I run into on every other available surface in my life, I'm generally stuck by how much if it is aimed at making people paranoid and insecure. People dancing with happiness over getting cosmetic botox injections and worrying about whether or not their dresses fit right. Bleah. I do quite well without it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They want us to think we're missing out (and our friends and neighbours will laugh at us) if we don't buy their blithering products.

I'd miss my TV- if only because I need it to play my DVDs. But I don't watch a lot these days. And most of what I watch is on the BBC channels which are free of commercials.