What would be great is if people hated adverts, as much as they appear now to hate immigrants, homosexuals, people of other colours, etc. I mean if they stopped being so horrible to their fellow human beings, if they stopped wasting time and energy on hating such people... and instead focused on what is actually wrong. We are in an odd world now where things and people who don’t do us much harm or are even helpful to us are strongly disliked, but things that do us a lot of harm are ignored, or even admired!
Adverts are a good example of this. They are a horrible vulture like monster, picking away at us with their sharp beaks… a merciless virus eating us out from within. Lying, cheating, deceiving…
Oh yes!
Seems like i’m exaggerating, and maybe i’m playing with words to enjoy the fun of it. But basically the point is true: adverts have a very bad influence on us, our psychology, our societies. And the fact that 90% of us have no idea of that only makes the damage worse. The cancer that is most likely to kill you is the one you don’t even know is there.
But it IS there, eating away at you.
How so? One thing is that adverts take positive human emotions, natural desires, intimate relations, fun activities etc… and then, have the audacity to tie them to a product.
Utter bastards.
How dare they take something like the image of an innocent child playing happily with it’s grandmother, and then tie that into life insurance. How dare they sully and pollute that positive and natural human relation to sell their fucking product? This abuse of what is good is basically something that should not be allowed, ever.
We are at the point now where the most clearly unhealthy products, like cigarettes, are no longer allowed to be associated with sport, leisure, sexiness, etc. We have at least realised that this is not good, its basically promoting a very unhealthy thing by connecting it to things we like, and therefore is a very underhand con trick. But, one day, let’s hope, we might get smart enough to think that ALL asdverts for all products, of all types, are like that.
I saw an advert today where the outwards focus was on protecting the environment… and the product associated with that very good inclination was a camera.
Oh, fuck off.
Ok...How does your camera help the environment? Do 10% of your huge corporate profits of the company who made that camera go to reforestation? How about the plastic covering of the camera? doesn’t the production process of that pollute the environment? Hasn’t your company made a big effort to get around the healthy and safety standards required in the factories that make those cameras? Hasn’t your company moved its factory out of the US/UK/Japan etc to China/India/Thailand etc? Did you close the factory in Detroit in order to help the environment of that city? Did the 5,000 jobs you took away help things there? Are the near slavery conditions of the new factory in Asia helping the workers health much? Is the pollution that companies like you produce, that forces people to wear masks half the year, helping the environment?
You utter lying scum. Take your advert and stick it where the environment don’t shine.
We dont want all our positive human emotions, natural desires, intimate relations, fun activities abused to sell your crap. Ban them all and see what a positive change it makes to the world.
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