Reply #27: It isn't just the official ads -- it is all of the programming [View All]

TV is a distorted mirror which now calls itself "reality."

That we are a stupid consumer culture is nothing new -- in the USA, the Monkees (fake band) outsold the Beatles. Each week of the Monkees would introduce a record which would go to number 1 that week in sales.

Americans buy on price -- not on value, probably because price is stone simple and value takes some thought. The GOP basically sells to this by saying "we cost less" (eg. "we will, allegedly, lower your taxes").

In general, people need to stop treating TV as the scoreboard. Of course it is all lies -- the real score is what you live with eery day: a shrinking quality of life, rising debt and general decay of culture.