It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
From Christopher Lasch
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
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