Thursday, September 22, 2011

Response to "Hype"

In "Hype" by Kalle Lasn, she has explained that us people can't live a day without seeing any kind of advertisement of some sort. All around the world there are ads, commercials and such passing us by going through our minds back and forth. One reason for this infinite creation is that we can't live without them because the millions of companies spend thousands of dollars to make them to support their new product so they can soon start selling them. Another reason would be that even on the clothes and shoes we wear their ads on them as well. This will forever go on through our lives in the following explanation.
            One reason why i agree with Kalle Lasn is that "the increase in commercial advertising has happened so steadily and relentlessly that we haven't quite woken up to the absurdity of it all", is because millions of people in the world including me are always busy with their jobs and education and family events and such.  This i can relate to because as much as id like to be around my friends and especially my girlfriend we are always busy doing schoolwork that we haven't really noticed how bad propaganda is blinding us thanks to the media and corporations.
          Another reason why i agree with Kalle Lasn is that "anywhere your eyes can possibly come to rest is now a place, in corporate America's view, can and ought to be filled with a logo or product message." This is because everywhere that even on the clothes and shoes we wear, their ads on them as well. This will forever go on because we can't simply just turn this fact down. I can relate to this because whenever i am on the bus going to school i pass billboards and posters of new movies that were just released and they do look really interesting since i have seen the commercials for them.
          In conclusion, "hype", by Kalle Lasn does prove to be an interesting article such that it explains how the world for many of years that passes us by shows us the millions of ads and commercial advertisements for the newest products by the richest corporations we know. Sadly we can't do anything about this because it will go on forever and they control us. We are the puppets that pay into this garbage they give us.

1 comment:

  1. Carlos, there is a lot of repetition from the essay here, especially in the third paragraph, and not reasons and evidence of your own. Not a passing essay.

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