more on commercials

writing about those shitty drug commercials made me think about something. mind you, this is nothing profound or new, but rather its interesting how its something we in the western world have grown to accept without even really thinking about it.

every single commercial...no...every single ad in any form of media...wants your money. in your life time, you have never seen, nor will you ever see, an ad that isnt in some way trying to separate you from your money. i dare you to look for one. youll be shitting in adult diapers and sipping steak through a straw before you find one.

now, of course, this is the way the economy works. you work for money, you spend your money, and then you wake up the next day and go to work again. money has the potential to be either the most wonderful or most horrible thing to ever exist, because it depends entirely on how you choose to use it. and humans are as unpredictable as how fucking terrible the next m. night shamalan movie will be. it can be used to motivate people to design wonderful new technologies...or it can be taken away from you and turn you into a homicidal headcase.

but there are people whos only goal in life is to hoard money, and use it only to get more if it. i believe theyre called CEOs, and they dont give two shits whether theres enough to go around. because theyre the epitome of american mentality. get it by any means necessary, as long as it makes me happy. their job is to make sure you think they love you and care for you and want you to have a wonderful life with their product. you believe this? go play russian roulette with a shotgun. the reality is every ad wants your money because you matter less than it. and you always will. thats what it should say in every high school economy book. capitalism is the art of manipulation. create the illusion of need by any means necessary. I guess itll never make sense to me how you can have something like commercials...so essential to our way of life and yet...all it wants is what we have, and itll never be satisfied. if you think you need everything you see on tv, then youre fucked, and civilization is next.