The older I get the more I realize that American culture for the past 60 years has been nothing but grifters capitalizing on lazy consumerist suckers.
I know I'm not gonna fall for it but I'm done wasting my breath trying to stop everyone else. My family and I will be fine. That's all I have control over.
Read "Propaganda" by Edward Bernays. The rise of "public relations" (i.e. propaganda in the form of advertising) is responsible for driving this, and in that book Bernays gleefully preaches how that is a good thing (because those in power obviously know better than everyone else) and gives plenty of examples of the manipulative methods used to sell stuff.
The older I get the more I realize that American culture for the past 60 years has been nothing but grifters capitalizing on lazy consumerist suckers.
I know I'm not gonna fall for it but I'm done wasting my breath trying to stop everyone else. My family and I will be fine. That's all I have control over.
Read "Propaganda" by Edward Bernays. The rise of "public relations" (i.e. propaganda in the form of advertising) is responsible for driving this, and in that book Bernays gleefully preaches how that is a good thing (because those in power obviously know better than everyone else) and gives plenty of examples of the manipulative methods used to sell stuff.
Three guesses as to what the early life section of Bernays’ Wikipedia article says