Introduction: THEY SAY
This exerpt is much like the previous reading we did. I related it much back to streotypes and how easily people are persuaded to believe anything they hear. In this age of technology advanced materials we have multiple ways of getting information from point a to point b as fast as a text message gets to your girlfriend or boyfriends phone. In this article the author asks the question "Who are they? and why do they say so much?" I believe THEY are everyone. Everyone is trying convince someone of something. We are all trying to be better than someone else or something else. Everyone is blindly aware of this, that advertising and persuasiveness are encripted in everything we do, see, eat, and everywhere we go. Is it not ironic to you that we see advertisments for car accident attoneys on billboards around new circle? So you can try to get that number as you drift out of your own lane and into another car? Rushkoff does a very good job of remaining nuetral in his position, in my opinion because, without this persuation the world would be bland and advertising would be non existent but at the same time he doesnt want to agree that the worlds population as a whole is lacking in the IQ department because they dont recognize the techniques that many of these companies use... Like Apple for example, the smartest thing they could have done was make the newest Iphone all glass. Why? because people are destructive and they will make bookoos of money replacing screens and selling new phones for ones that cannot be replaced. and on that I rest my case.
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