Sunday, September 10, 2017
TV Big Brother-O-MMericials
I am upping the status of television barf-o-mmercials. No longer do I feel they are patronizing, mind-numbing, and inane. Now I realize they purposely are manipulative. These television ads are not being made by the people to which they are supposed to appeal. Once I thought this. They are just stupid. Now I realize purposely they are manipulative. There is a style of late night advertising which capitalizes on marijuana use. They have used style as a template, and because America's educational system has become unfunded, it must be working on the mainstream. These ads are misleading, often not factual, and are a bad influence on the population. There are so many of them, if one believed television like America did once, when it was a generator of pop culture, all of America is stoned all the time. "Let's do this." I can not understand how this phrase fits into any advertisement. Let's do what? The scenario is a bunch of millennials listening to a car salesman. Car salesmen once were loathed. Now the salesman is giving a motivational speech to a bunch of kids trying to sell them a car. It is like a bad Southwest seminar. You are meant to think the seminar is genuine. Instead it is meant to get your money. "Let's do this." The guy tells them a bunch of trumped up facts about the car, and the kids rally like a corporate board meeting. "Let's do this." Let's coerce kids into buying over-priced cars with a bunch of mindless rah rah. It's a pep rally for a new car. Wrong.