Anybody who's in the business of making money from consumers on a large scale will, no doubt, have an effective advertising campaign in effect. Anybody who studies a lot of ads with the perspective of they're trying to sell you something, don't give in, will notice that these ads will go to any length to grab another group of customers in. Car advertisements now feature cool music, in order to appeal to the hip new adults (read: car buyers) sprouting up everywhere. On the internet, ads detect what's on a page in order to maximize the number of people in the target group who sees the ad, and minimize viewing by the people outside of that group. Fucking excellent.
Corporations, although they all seem evil, generally aren't. Take, for instance, the owner of this website. Not me, you doofus. Google owns blogspot. Google is awesome. Sure, they keep track of every search ever made, every link ever clicked, and generally everything everyone does on the internet, and sure that's creepy, but they're using it for some damn awesome things. But i'm getting of topic. My point is that corporations aren't evil by nature.
That said, they're slowly but surely destroying the genuine soul of everything that ever had one. But it's not the corporations who are to blame. The problem, reader, is you. That's right, it's you, your friends, your family, and everyone you've ever seen. It's even me. We've let the corporations become soul-stealers. We've come under the popular and comfortable assumption that everything a corporation puts forth is automatically uncool, boring, typical, and even nauseating. I, for one, am fucking sick of this immature and destructive attitude. What the fuck is your objective in life? Do you want to do what you want to do, or do you want to become the opposite of something that you merely think (incorrectly, I might add) is destroying the world? I want to do what I want to do, whether or not a corporation says it's cool.
Every time I step foot inside a mall and look around at all the pretty things on display, I shake my head and scowl and do all kinds of stupid things, like an immature little hipster brat. If I'm with people, I feel the urge to loudly point out how blatantly obvious the subliminal advertising is, and how I'm immune to it. I'm getting better all the time, as the Beatles song goes, but I still have the occasional outburst. These days, I'll catch myself in the middle of a sentence and stop myself. Lifestyles take time to overcome.
Why do I bring this up? Maybe you have a similar disease. I used to think it was clairvoyance, but now I think it's a curse. Maybe I'm still wrong. What I do know is that it's fucking obnoxious and I hate myself for doing it. I hope you do too.
I don't think you get the point. Be true to your own beliefs, likes, loves, regardless of who else shares or pretends to share them. You're weak if you can't do this. You're a spineless, worthless piece of shit. You're a leaf of paper. Grow a pair, you pansy whimpsauce-eating vagina. I bet you like reading all these funny words. I bet you just changed your mind! Fuck off. You disgust me.