Commercials

[tekagirl]

 I have been taken by some commercials lately - and not in a good way.  I'm kind of astounded and dismayed by the messages companies are sending to their desired targets, about their desired targets.  A sampling...

"We are a nation of consumers" - Discover Card
     "and there's nothing wrong with that...problem is, there's just so much cool stuff,

Comments

[doulosxristou]

You often hear about the media breaking down the self-esteem of young girls with the body-image issue, but this makes me wonder if it's more widespread. I mean, the main thing that ads do is try to make us feel a need for some product, and to do that, they have to make us feel inadequate.

So in order for us to buy their stuff, we have to be overly impulsive, breakfast incompetent plant-neglecters? Why don't they just make more desirable stuff???