Somebody should tell them their commercials are stupid so they wise up and get a new ad firm
Andi
Don't watch much TV, but have noticed that most ads are for products which each citizen has already made up his mind about & chosen his favorites -- vehicles, fast food, medications, snacks, insurance, etc. Most ads include images or concepts of lifestyle that apparently give people feelings of power or satisfaction: gorgeous babes & hunky guys, people driving new vehicles through wide open beautiful landscapes at full throttle as the only vehicle on the road, gorging on fast food giving feelings of omnipotence (ha!ha!) and pharmaceutical ads conveying ideal pleasant family life, plus a widespread use of images of individual power to give viewer feelings of being "king of the hill". So why do companies spend big bucks on ads when most people will stick with the brands they already use? Mulled that over recently. My conclusion is that the corporations which run our government & other governments of this planet merely want to keep our minds full of foolish images & yearnings that may keep us from thinking about the big picture of humanity and joining together to take positive actions to improve government and shift the power balance from entrenched self-serving government to the people of our nation. Ads that puff up our human egos seem just a trick to keep people feeling they have real choices. A parallel to that is the fact that our government now permits only the "top" two political parties to participate in the so-called presidential debates every four years, thus pushing aside minor parties which want to make visible some alternate choices for the future of our government and this planet. Formula for small wealthy groups to control the burgeoning populace of humanity: keep people yearning for more material goods, keep people divided into opposing blocks which spar at & condemn one another instead of joining to improve things, keep people's thoughts full of baloney! Never thought I'd lean toward becoming a conspiracy theorist, but seem to be morphing that way these days, especially as I learned this week that 85 people control the same amount of wealth as half the population of the entire world, and the top 1% has 65 times the wealth of the bottom half . Ads? Blitz, glitz, and plenty of "duh". Whew, now I need seven straight days of beautiful leisurely beach detecting to recover from heating up my old brain here. HAVE FUN! Life is short, so do what you enjoy as long as it doesn't hurt others.
