and even if they don't succeed in selling directly to you, some amount of the information is going to be retained in your subconscious, which may very well affect your decisions in the future without you knowing about it.

but that's not what bothers me most. what bothers me most is watching the trained teenagers of my generation consciously absorb commercial messages, process them, and converse about them around me, and to know that i'm powerless to stop this on a small-scale, let alone the world.
screwedcork Reviewed by screwedcork on . The wonderful world of televised consumerism READ THIS PLEASE So I thought for my 420th post, I'd do my part and bring up an issue that I think is a major plague on our society. I'm actually really high right now, so WHOOHOO :) , and I don't know I tend to really analyse things when I get baked. For a long time now I've secretly cringed whenever somebody says "oh, I love this commercial!". Nobody seems to see the problem in this, but it's bothered me for a good while. I've just come to the point where I won't watch any TV commercials, and I hate Rating: 5