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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Date: 2008-03-03 09:49 pm (UTC)-- George Orwell
Ah, I was just thinking about the evils of advertising myself; every political issue has been coopted by advertising.
Obama's slogan - Change
Verison's (cellphone) - Change
Choice, Freedom, Independence, Trust ... all of these important political words are now not political but advertising.
So, what do these words now mean to us when we use them in a political context? Do they mean anything political anymore?
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Date: 2008-03-05 03:20 pm (UTC)Gordon Brown (our underperforming, overpromoted, dithery prime minister) just made a speech in which he said,
"So with the courage of our convictions, with pride in our common purpose, let us go out with confidence to meet the world to come, and let us build the Britain of our dreams."
Empty, empty, empty.