Review Of Culture Jam By Kalle Lasn
The advertising culture is having a devastating
effect on our agendas of
becoming the media's ideal of perfection, and behind all of this self-sacrifice the
media and corporations are the ones succeeding, not us. In Culture Jam, by Kale
Lasn, the founder of Adbusters magazine, he attempts to show the reader what our
mass media has been doing subliminally.
When the average American thinks of consumerism, we believe it is the promotion
of the consumer's interests. What Lasn believes is that we're being told what our
interests are and to buy into those false interests. We've become disconnected with
ourselves and our own interests to fit those that our corporations have designed for
us. He uses an example of taking your family to the forest for some alone time to
brave the elements and come closer as a family, but after only a few short hours
becoming so bored that you begin self-destructing due to lack of technology. Our
children......
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