who thinks were being brain washed to buy stuff?

Question

i mean just look at all the advertising it looks like people are easily taken in by it all and no matter were u go theres always advertising i mean u cant realy name a place with out it theres any1 think the same ?

Answer 1

Americans are definitely brainwashed every day by ads coming at them from every side. Now even the drug companies are advertising their products literally bypassing doctors. I watched one program last week and counted sixteen minutes of ads. By the time the program was over I couldn't remember a single ad because I was saturated. Too little advertising is not beneficial but too much within a short span of time is even worse.

Answer 2

Brain washed is a pretty strong term - but I have no doubt that the enormous advertising expenditures by large corporations MUST have some effect in the amount of items they sell, for what ever reasons.
It is sometimes confusing as to whether a product is developed which has a known market - or a market is developed for a known product.

Answer 3

We are all being systematically persuaded to be uncomfortable with ourselves if we don't have the very latest thing. It is a deliberate, cynical, and sinister attempt to manipulate the audience into being neurotic and unhealthy so that someone can sell you something, anything. It is not an appeal to your intelligence, but rather to your fear, and it has been incredibly successful. Having spent hundreds of billions of dollars to research how best to do this, you had better believe they have become expert at it, and anyone who thinks they are not being influenced does so at their own peril. And, at a time when our tiny population consumes more of the world's resources per capita than any other in the world, and resources are in such demand, this is totally irresponsible behavior on the part of the corporations who engage in it.

Answer 4

You can't blame irresponsibility on advertising. It's advertisers jobs to get product names out there. Some times a company might employ some questionable tactics, but I rarely see anyone cross the line between persuasion and outright trickery. If you're going along with every advertisement, then you're doing it of your own will. Someone did mention cigarette companies, and, in the past, some tobacco companies have definitely been guilty of concealing the truth, and they do still employ certain unethical means to ensure long-term customers (additives whose sole purpose is to make quitting nearly impossible). That was wrong, but the fact remains that today we do know the risks, so anyone starting smoking today does it of their own free will, hopefully knowing and accepting those risks.

Answer 5

Are you kidding? Of course that is the job they perform in advertising they have psychology experts to wrap our minds around items to buy. They play on your weakness for sex with Viagra, birth control pills, Booze commercials, used to be cigarettes? eh? Even though they knew it would cause the Big C. So what else is new? I like the Disneyland commercials or the Geico Insurance one with the Caveman? ha ha But those are harmless. Good Hunting

Answer 6

Of course you are why do you think we have 100 different cereals? Shirts that costs 100's and t shoes in the hundreds which in turn leads to drug dealing cause you can't afford them on a regular paying job and hey have to keep up with the Jones!!

Answer 7

If by brain washed you mean that corporations physiologically create needs for products that you don't need. I would have to say yes, some people are.

Answer 8

I don't think that we are being brain washed, if we were everything that is being advertised I would have to buy.

Answer 9

Oh definitely. It's consumer capitalism.

Answer 10

We are being brain washed, that's why I wear a tinfoil hat.