advertising on Subjectivism

In this post-truth world, any marketing BS seems tolerable.

We are surrounded by hundreds, thousands of messages every day that link our deepest emotions to products that objectify people and trivialize our most heartfelt moments and relationships. Every emoti...

Have you ever noticed that we often see ourselves, specifically our bodies, our facial features differently? In 2013 the soap company Dove decided to explore this phenomenon by hiring an FBI-trained f...

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Why a story? We all think of our lives as stories, each with a main character (us) theme, and plot (interesteing so far, but as yet unfinished). We also love to hear stories about others and even abou...

...You are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, therefore, don’t flatter your adult agency, or even ignore it—they supplant it.

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer. And so, the balance of business expenditures shifts from product research to market research...

The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that, if we are not careful, we forget to be insulted by it.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Brands are the new religion.

Advertising is literally an attempt to monetize our restlessness.

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

We must shift America from a needs to a desires culture…. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality. Man’s de...

Princess Buttercup: “You mock my pain. Man in Black: Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

“Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising,” announced Lord Peter sententiously, “is like leaven, w...

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society const...

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commo...

I once heard a sermon that compared believers to commercials for God. “And God doesn’t need any bad commercials,” I remember the preacher saying. It stuck with me, and from then on I often made decisi...

Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.”

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

The distance between rationality and advertising is now so wide that it is difficult to remember that there once existed a connection between them.”

Now today, with increased opportunity for personal-data collection via technology, target marketing has allowed sellers to become even more effective. No longer do they know just our age, gender, and...

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

The advertiser is the over rewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.