You Ve Just Been Brandwashed Analysis
You’ve Just Been Brandwashed
There is a man lying sluggishly on his couch. He’s been there for what has seemed like an eternity, watching hundreds of commercials throughout his shows. He bites a burger he just recently bought and clenches a pain within his chest. His conclusion could have been from the burgers and chips he watched on television, how long he was sitting on that couch, or the methods the advertisements used against his mind.
Commercials prime your mind to make unwise decisions when it comes to your next meal. When you come home from work, your school, or social event, you sit down and watch television as you rest. “Most of our television viewing occurs in the evening, and late night snacks are usually high in calories (Carson).” Everyone snacks when they watch television, and it is the most difficult thing to choose your snack wisely after it has already been decided by your screen. …show more content…
“Every two hours the women spent watching television each day, they had 23 percent higher risk of becoming obese and 14 percent risk of developing diabetes (Television).” I have a grandfather who developed diabetes a few years ago. It is said that he would sit and watch TV for hours, eating snacks and drinking sodas until the day that he was in the hospital for his newfound illness.
Advertisements brainwash you without you realizing. “If the advertising is now purposely designed to bypass those rational defenses, then the traditional legal defenses protecting advertising speech in the marketplace have to be questioned (Singer).” You have witnessed this yourself when you watch television for a few hours, then you find yourself buying the product you have just had engrained in your mind. I understand that advertisements need to use methods to sell their products, but they have found ways to break past your mental barriers that rationalize your
There is a man lying sluggishly on his couch. He’s been there for what has seemed like an eternity, watching hundreds of commercials throughout his shows. He bites a burger he just recently bought and clenches a pain within his chest. His conclusion could have been from the burgers and chips he watched on television, how long he was sitting on that couch, or the methods the advertisements used against his mind.
Commercials prime your mind to make unwise decisions when it comes to your next meal. When you come home from work, your school, or social event, you sit down and watch television as you rest. “Most of our television viewing occurs in the evening, and late night snacks are usually high in calories (Carson).” Everyone snacks when they watch television, and it is the most difficult thing to choose your snack wisely after it has already been decided by your screen. …show more content…
“Every two hours the women spent watching television each day, they had 23 percent higher risk of becoming obese and 14 percent risk of developing diabetes (Television).” I have a grandfather who developed diabetes a few years ago. It is said that he would sit and watch TV for hours, eating snacks and drinking sodas until the day that he was in the hospital for his newfound illness.
Advertisements brainwash you without you realizing. “If the advertising is now purposely designed to bypass those rational defenses, then the traditional legal defenses protecting advertising speech in the marketplace have to be questioned (Singer).” You have witnessed this yourself when you watch television for a few hours, then you find yourself buying the product you have just had engrained in your mind. I understand that advertisements need to use methods to sell their products, but they have found ways to break past your mental barriers that rationalize your