When individuals are persuaded to view themselves as inferior, they can be directed into the purchase of any product or brand that promises fulfillment and human completeness. Consumption will supposedly bring ever elusive perfection. Advertiser promises of course, remain eternally unfulfilled, and the individual gradually submerges into a fantasy of consumption as an end in itself.
Much of mass communication industry depends on the explotiation and manipulation of human weakness.
The one consistent theme permeating virtually all advertising is consumer inferiority. By unconcious comparison, the consumer has to be a loser, deficient and ordinary.
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2007-01-20 02:45:36 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Making people feel inferior was central to the church's control of the western world in the Middle Ages, but I think that the increasing individualist movement is making it harder and harder for the church to gain people. Trying to make people give up their life plan, their goals and wants to follow an idea is getting harder and harder.
But I don't think most religious people feel inferior. Actually, I think they feel superior. They've found The Way, and the rest of the people are just poor lost souls to pity.
2007-01-20 03:11:22 · answer #1 · answered by Sunflowers&Roses 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite the opposite. I have worth, given to my by my Father, far greater than I could ever have imagined. God values me so much that He died for me - there is no higher value in life.
I understand the psychology of consumption and advertising - but that is not what Christianity is about. Christianity is not the exploitation and manipulation of the masses - it is free will to choose - I choose God.
2007-01-20 10:54:48 · answer #2 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
everyone whos not living according to the way of truth. when you know the answer to your question, you don't feel any more inferiority or fear or confusions. no more emotions. just plain peace. no reaction, no pain, no more sorrow, no more hapiness, no more joy as well
2007-01-20 10:53:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no i do not think , i am 17 and a muslim and if you need more detail i can answer by chatting. and i think you need to match ideas they are defferent so yhink deeply. ok. excuse me i recently started learning english and i have some mistakes. my ID: morteza_tallebi
2007-01-20 10:56:29 · answer #4 · answered by Good Boy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody should be treated equal but should not force their way of life onto anyone else.
2007-01-20 10:52:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel you are stuffy, judgmental and have a way too inflated opinion of your personal intelligence!
2007-01-20 12:47:32 · answer #6 · answered by June smiles 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, but I do pity those who have not found the happiness in my life that I have found.
2007-01-20 10:50:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't feel inferior or superior to anyone.
2007-01-20 10:49:22 · answer #8 · answered by nowyouknow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO.
Peace and Love
2007-01-20 11:26:06 · answer #9 · answered by mil's 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(Do religious people think they are INFERIOR?)
No! Just FORGIVEN!
2007-01-20 11:06:02 · answer #10 · answered by bumpy 4 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋