Advertise Here

the article for this post is "salespeak" by roy f. fox. the gist of this article is that advertising is ridiculous. that it, though it does it in a creative way. basically, it's a piece of fiction where everything is saturated with adverts. the child's name is pepsi and childern do experiments based on adverts in science class (like which spagetti sauce is thicker: ragu or prego). the author then goes on to talk about examples in current times. adverts are ridiculous. i remember watching tv during a commercial break. all it contained was different pics of michael jordan. then it ended zooming out with michale jordan just standing there. that was it. to this day, i still have no idea what was being advertised. how many products do i own are some form of advertising? let's see, my computer says hp on the back of the screen, my tv says symphonic, my shirt say something about doctor who. that's about it for my room (i got off lucky). the point is that humans themselves have become advertising space. just by what you dress in you show off some product. is this story so far fetched and ridiculous? no. but, not all advertising is bad. without it, capitalism might not work and you wouldn't know of somethings that you might actully like to bad instead of just being told to buy something. the point is, there is a time and place for advertising. where is that line and have we crossed it already?