Sociology: Consumerism and Advertising
Like the advent of a razor with five blades (or even the
introduction of the single-blade razor for cosmetic hair-removal), we incite the
other to question her wants and needs.
We aggravate and agitate.
We push, we pull. We pitch
contrast and cast lines of light into each other’s mysteries. We offer the
sparkling promise of potential. We
are the one you didn’t know you wanted.
We are the thing you hardly dared dream. We are the solution to a problem you didn’t know you had,
but we are also problematic, and there will be a price. You will be uncomfortable with the
questions and doubts this union inspires.
But in the end, you will know the difference between a lemon and a real
bargain, and you will know better where you begin and end.
