Rick - your article touches on a point that I am very passionate about. Advertising with inappropriate images has long been on my pet peave list. Why is there a woman in a bikini selling cars (shouldn't she be selling bikinis)? At technology conventions, why is a scantily clad women handing out information about circuit board chips? Yes, I know the answer .. sex sells. That is what I have been told. It is a sad reality about our society. Are we really that immature and gullible to fall for that? And the more we advertise this way, the more we expect it, the more we ignore it, the more we are used to it.
As far as allowing the commercials on the SuperBowl, perhaps the fact that society has been acclimated to those other companies or advertising methods, it was allowed. I believe that the repeated viewing of shows on tv causes a "it's normal" feeling among society. The more you see inappropriate, immoral, and illegal behavior on tv and movies, the more it becomes "normal". The more you watch shows with blood and violence, the more numb to it you become. I discovered this at my own parent's home recently. I had to remove my young daughter from the tv room. (CSI stuff, blood, dead bodies, violence) They were oblivious it seemed to the affect those images would have on a young child. I believe the same happens to adults who frequent strip clubs, visit internet porn sites, etc. They become numb to the reality that those activities are damaging to their relationship with their spouse. "Everybody does it .... blah, blah, blah, vomit"!
I thought for a moment in your article you were going to reference the Holocaust. Probably got your attention now, huh? You mentioned how large groups get lulled into doing wrong (churches, government). It is scary to me how as humans we can be so sedated to the truth of what is plain right and wrong!
society's numbness to tv / movies
Rick - your article touches on a point that I am very passionate about. Advertising with inappropriate images has long been on my pet peave list. Why is there a woman in a bikini selling cars (shouldn't she be selling bikinis)? At technology conventions, why is a scantily clad women handing out information about circuit board chips? Yes, I know the answer .. sex sells. That is what I have been told. It is a sad reality about our society. Are we really that immature and gullible to fall for that? And the more we advertise this way, the more we expect it, the more we ignore it, the more we are used to it.
As far as allowing the commercials on the SuperBowl, perhaps the fact that society has been acclimated to those other companies or advertising methods, it was allowed. I believe that the repeated viewing of shows on tv causes a "it's normal" feeling among society. The more you see inappropriate, immoral, and illegal behavior on tv and movies, the more it becomes "normal". The more you watch shows with blood and violence, the more numb to it you become. I discovered this at my own parent's home recently. I had to remove my young daughter from the tv room. (CSI stuff, blood, dead bodies, violence) They were oblivious it seemed to the affect those images would have on a young child. I believe the same happens to adults who frequent strip clubs, visit internet porn sites, etc. They become numb to the reality that those activities are damaging to their relationship with their spouse. "Everybody does it .... blah, blah, blah, vomit"!
I thought for a moment in your article you were going to reference the Holocaust. Probably got your attention now, huh? You mentioned how large groups get lulled into doing wrong (churches, government). It is scary to me how as humans we can be so sedated to the truth of what is plain right and wrong!