In response to yesterday’s Art & Commerce posting, this just in from a regular reader:
I can’t help but think that, in the words of the Pogo cartoon, “We have met the enemy and they is us.” Would we be subjected to this all-pervasive level of advertising if we, as a society/culture, were not so obsessed with consumption? It seems to me a bit like the proliferation of bad television, in that it is, ultimately, driven not only by our acceptance of it, but by the rewards we bestow upon the perpetrators (the more they advertise, the more we consume).
So does this mean I have to give up drinking Starbucks? And just when they’ve made it so convenient by opening a Starbucks stand inside of every Vons supermarket in the extended vicinity.