Critical mass
Nov. 13th, 2006 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
farlaIt's so surreal to be listening to a teacher go on about advertising when they're just parroting propaganda.
The information is out of date. It was a hypothesis. It was disproved. The consultants were making shit up. There aren't really 'trendsetters' that mold teen culture, the cool hunters crashed and burned, and no, the amount of information I process consciously is not expressed in single digit percents. No, a couple of shots of the inner nightlife of the biggest cities does not prove all of America is swamped with ads. No, I am not blindly buying products based on ads.
I have just spent two hours trying to track down the whole bit about killing for Nikes. I see a lot of references to it, no actual sources. I'm sure this happened in some form, but I'm willing to bet it wasn't because of Nike's incredible ad campaign. If I was going to mug someone, I'd go after the guy with the hundred dollar shoes too. All the statistics I've seen so far are obviously misleadingly stated, and that's even assuming that the studies were done correctly. The articles we're reading condemning advertisement are really obviously lying to us. They're making statements, then following those statements with ones that relate to something else, then next paragraph they assume that statement proved and do it again. It is sloppy, manipulative arguing designed to influence in the absence of actual fact.
And all the data - ALL OF IT - is obviously untrue. The studies were done ten or twenty years ago, the the information rarely proves what it's taken to prove, the author deliberately twists words to mean different things, and the anecdotal evidence are stories that I can't find.
And it's too much trouble to track down any of this stuff, so it's assumed as true.
We're reached the point in our society where there is so much information we can no longer find it.
The information is out of date. It was a hypothesis. It was disproved. The consultants were making shit up. There aren't really 'trendsetters' that mold teen culture, the cool hunters crashed and burned, and no, the amount of information I process consciously is not expressed in single digit percents. No, a couple of shots of the inner nightlife of the biggest cities does not prove all of America is swamped with ads. No, I am not blindly buying products based on ads.
I have just spent two hours trying to track down the whole bit about killing for Nikes. I see a lot of references to it, no actual sources. I'm sure this happened in some form, but I'm willing to bet it wasn't because of Nike's incredible ad campaign. If I was going to mug someone, I'd go after the guy with the hundred dollar shoes too. All the statistics I've seen so far are obviously misleadingly stated, and that's even assuming that the studies were done correctly. The articles we're reading condemning advertisement are really obviously lying to us. They're making statements, then following those statements with ones that relate to something else, then next paragraph they assume that statement proved and do it again. It is sloppy, manipulative arguing designed to influence in the absence of actual fact.
And all the data - ALL OF IT - is obviously untrue. The studies were done ten or twenty years ago, the the information rarely proves what it's taken to prove, the author deliberately twists words to mean different things, and the anecdotal evidence are stories that I can't find.
And it's too much trouble to track down any of this stuff, so it's assumed as true.
We're reached the point in our society where there is so much information we can no longer find it.
