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.