Dear World Wide Web,
The video of the commercial for the new windows 7 phone that we watched in class amazed me. It is attractive to viewers because of the music and because it is funny and makes you realize how absurd society has gotten. It almost reminded me of Idiocracy, it almost seemed like some viewers are infantilizied by commercials. People watching this commercial, all happy because of the songs, laughing because its funny, yet at the same time it just seems stupid because that is what the majority of those viewers do on a daily basis. And then the fact that the phone is being advertised as "the phone to get you in, out, and back to life". Yet it is still a phone, the same technology that is the problem is the solution. It makes NO sense. I showed the video to another one of my teachers in the Communication and Media and I thought he was going to analyze it and say how crazy it was, but instead the professor talked about how funny it was.
I don't know what we have come to but it seems that nothing makes sense anymore.
Kiersten
that's true -- it does make no sense -- except as a form of camouflage -- it camouflages the conflicts and contradictions in our culture by pretending they don't exist -- that has always been the function of ideology -- to make the strange seem normal, the bizarre, conventional.
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