The quote that I chose is the first sentence in the Hype section. Kale Lasn says "Advertisements are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants." This line really stood out to me because I completely agree with it. Our world revolves around advertising, everywhere you go you see an ad for something even if its not on a billboard or a commercial an ad will be somewhere. People are becoming walking billboards for clothing companies. If a person is wearing a product that has the label on it everyone who see that person will see the logo and sub-concisely think of that brand. Products and ideas are now constantly on are minds and are even beginning to change the way we see things. I think the biggest way it pollutes our mind is how we are starting to see people. If a person does not wear the latest fashion styles people will put them down before they even meet them. The world is becoming a branded place where ideas can only be backed by a persons status and how up to date they are.
I believe that this idea of advertisements polluting our minds links well to the steady decline of humanity. I believe that we are all going in the wrong direction because we care to much about other people and how they act. I do not care if you drive a rolls royce or a honda as long as you are a real person and real people are becoming harder and harder to find. The only way we can fix the world is if we look at ourselves and ignore the big companies that rule our lives.
"People are becoming walking billboards for clothing companies."
ReplyDeleteThis is what I mean when some students argue, "We can just turn it off."
Can we? Really? I'm not so sure.
"Advertisements are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants." This is the same veiws are have! For instance, why don't people wear cloth that are not name brand but you mostly see people where hollister or american eagle. Mostly because we care to much about what others think!
ReplyDeleteGirls are always asking 'where did you get that shirt?'
ReplyDeleteWhat if one of them said, 'oh, i got it at goodwill'
that would completely change the way someone looks at someone.
Just because they arent wearing a shirt that is from Hollister or AE.
It's quite sad, it makes you wonder how did America get so selfish and selfcentered.
I think all this goes back to the whole idea of a person understanding of themselves. I know several guys how don't wear band new shoes or top line t-shirts, and they are happy with who they are. I think when we don't know who we truly are or what type of person that we want to be. We look to corporate and fashion worlds to tell us who we should be. Today we don’t like working hard or take the time to actually look with in ourselves to find out who we truly are so we stick with what we are told in tv ads. As for us right now must people I know don’t like themselves and if they don’t like them how will someone else like how they are. So we go and dress up and pay $35 for a plain t-shirt and $50+ for a pair of jeans at American Eagle, Abercrombie and Fitch, Hollister, etc. We use material goods to make up for what we lack in our own self confidents.
ReplyDeleteI thought your last sentence was very meaningful and completely true, "the only way we can fix the world is if we look at ourselves and ignore the big companies that rule our lives". Us consumers are brainwashed by these big business who are selling and marketing their products everywhere possible. We have to look past all these advertisements and think for ourselves. Do i really need that new Ipod because it can take pictures when i have a perfectly good working one already?
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