The Big Herding

I am going to watch the next commercial break and report how many commercials are lies...hold on...be right back...

Commercial #1 - Jenny Craig with Kirstie Alley from "Fat Actress" acting like see is talking into a cell phone to Jenny Craig
#2 - Mastercard commercial where a guy makes a doomed matrix out of yarn
#3 - Silk Soy Milk where a brother and sister fencing team drink Silk everyday
#4 - Holiday Inn commercial where a clown is helping a cowboy ride a bull, but he is not a rodeo clown
#5 - Loreal commercial with Andie McDowell talking about how the make-up makes her so beautiful
#6 - some drug called Fosamax and paid actors telling how it helped them
#7 - A&E promo for a show called "Inked" where even one guy displays an "A&E" tattoo and the models say, "I did it alone" or "I did it with someone else."

All of them were lies! Well, you might say what does it matter, but once you start looking at the commercials and quietly in your head determine which ones lie, it makes you internalize how much of the world is fake and unreal. It is degrading when you realize that corporations are convinced that we are so stupid to fall for the dumbest and most blatant lie. We will buy what some actress promotes or wear the shoes a sports star models in. It shows the real use of media: to distort and obscure. Try it during the next break you encounter.

People complain that video games make kids violent and music makes people angry, but you never hear people say commercials make us lie and give us a false sense of the world. Congress won't address the ridiculousness of commercialism because it is a societal tool they use successfully themselves: political ads filled with lies. Commercials are the herding tools of modern man that imprison us away from the wild green pastures of orginality and truth.