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Originally Posted by hankster
That's interesting - I was shocked when I heard a younger person talk about aspirin or something like that, quoting a tv commercial as if it were factual. They were saying something weird about it, really unprovable, like it acts 10 times faster - I mean it wasnt that, but something weird like that, that was so blatantly hype, so obviously a lie - but the kid took it as truth and was preaching it to someone else. I was like, omg, what is going on here?
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This feels like a surprise to me too...but then I took a hike in a really beautiful place. There was a waterfall and a high alpine lake -- it was tremendously beautiful and I thought to myself: This looks like an expensive hotel with an endless pool and fountain. And then, I thought, NO THIS IS REAL. THIS IS NATURE.
It was so obviously NOT FAKE but it seemed unreal. I could only relate it to something that had been manufactured and advertised to me.
I think this says more about the power and ubiquitous nature of advertising images than any one of us, or any particular generation. It's all around us -- hype.