Fortunately the wish to change the world for the better is all about regaining what rightfully belong to us. So that is an immense incentive. Furthermore, regaining what is rightly owed to us, is about avoiding scams, marketing tactics and avoiding buying into what advertisers continuously tell us to do.
Advertisers and Marketing Professional by their definition must insist that you need their products. It is their job to make you feel inadequate, unfulfilled and worthless. The message they send is, "without their magical product" we can and never will feel fulfilled, adequate and worthy. The L'oreal Advert represents all that there is devious about the media. Their slogan " You're worth it" implies ,without their eight pound mascara you are not valuing yourself: you are not worth even eight pounds! To the unsuspecting consumer, this is hard message to take. In defiance, we shout " of course we are worth more than eight pounds" hence the sale is thus completed. The consumer in loyalty to themselves ,will insist on buying that mascara, if only to prove the advertisers wrong.
To get a good understanding of human behaviour in the modern world, it only takes a glance at the popular adverts displayed. We have an illness of affluence or "Affluenza" as the authors of this aptly named book would suggest. Economists were initially commissioned to organise and structure the national economy to proved the needs of the community. However this is not the reality in the modern day economy. The modern communities are structured to monetise every layer, heir-achy, level and every member of its society. Economist have little value for their philanthropy. They are however useful as Financial Consultants/analysts advocate maximising profits on behalf of corporations.
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