Don T Get Me Started On Advertising Analysis

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Don’t Get Me Started on Advertising by Keith Aconley Advertising is a disease. It is a perpetual assault on our senses, and it is on the verge of becoming an epidemic. It plagues our television screens, ruins our web browsing experiences and jingle after jingle has made the radio something to avoid. I do understand its purpose, and, if done appropriately and tastefully, it can almost be tolerable. However, the vast majority of it incenses me. It is inconvenient, misleading and morally questionable. We’ve all experienced it. You’re about to reach a pivotal point in a film or television show and… “Suffer from acne? Try our new and improved formula. Look, these airbrushed, hand-picked models, who have never even seen a spot,…show more content…
We live in an extremely judgmental and unforgiving society, of which corporations are more than aware. They are the first to exploit our anxieties and insecurities by bombarding us with images of an unrealistic ideal. We are lead to believe we are falling short of the ‘perfect life’ and with our so-called shortcomings in mind; we strive towards an unobtainable goal. In doing so, we spend copious amounts of money on ‘must-haves’ only to be faced with the inevitable disillusionment when, in fact, the diet pills do not help us shed three stone in a week, and the hair re-growth serum leaves our scalp as bald as before. This, above all else, is what gets to me. I can just about endure the inconvenience, I can almost stomach the misleading nonsense, but I simply cannot abide the way these advertisements are aimed at exploiting our insecurities. It is truly immoral and it raises real concerns about what is seen as acceptable in terms of commercial advertising. Thus, advertising in general repulses me. It feeds off our vulnerabilities and is suffocating our society. If we do not find an antidote to eradicate this ever-spreading disease, it could well inflict irreparable damage on us, if it has not done so already. It is, for the most part, our choice what we see and hear, so please take it upon yourself to avoid this fear-mongering, insecurity-breeding nonsense. You are fine the way you are and you do not need the ‘next big

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