Well ads are a source of pleasure, offering us self esteem for very little and never criticising us, except when we deserve it, so that is okay.
I wonder if many people, apart from me, notice how almost completely incapable of self-criticism the majority of consumers are? Even to point this out is already socially taboo. You’re supposed to stand back and let the good feelings abound.
To tell people that yes they really are suckers for ads and that their ideology will take them in a downward spiral is thought, by some, to be antihumanistic.
Or, if I criticise MYSELF, that is not understood as analysis, but as self-contempt, to be remedied by others doing their part.
And, when I say that those kinds of attitudes lack depth, people will react as if their feelings have been made to hurt, they have been deprived of their humanity and the words themselves should be put in quarantine.
No comments:
Post a Comment