Advertisements

We, as consumers, are confronted with all kinds of different advertisements any and every way we walk, look, or hear in our daily lives. Advertisements present an abstract world, in which they promise more than they can deliver (Pg.265). In a consumer society, we are surrounded by tons of goods, and advertisements for those goods, that are constantly changing to keep up with society. The idea that consumer products will offer self-fulfillment is crucial to marketing and consumption (Pg.269). That is exactly why I don’t like marketing, because companies say what you want to hear, but then put the side effects in very small print at the bottom, which is what you don’t want to hear. Especially when you see something that looks really good to eat and it’s for a very cheap price, and then you go to that place and it’s something very tiny that won’t even fill you up, that is exactly why advertising is dumb. But everyone is in it for the money, so I guess companies got to do whatever they got to do to get customers over there.