Huxley saw the advent of Propaganda in our lives, and was especially concerned about the influence of advertising on children (as well as the rest of us). The goal of all advertising is to sell product by convincing us that without the company's product we will be "less" than we could be with it. Of course, the manufacturers probably do not care a whit about how much better we look, feel, whatever ... just that we develop and attitude toward life that says we need more and more things, and especially the things that they are selling.
Huxley had his hypnopedia, which may or may not have worked; we had advertising which we KNOW works because of the incredible amounts of money that companies spend on it.
Did you ever wonder what we would be like/wish for/be interested in if there were no television ....
No comments:
Post a Comment