Blog 1 : Diagnostic

Silent moments are of the past! This passage is excerpted from the “Hype”. Author Kalle lasn observes the changing of todays culture thru advertisements. This is how the world and our children becoming materlistic and how their apperication for nature are diminishing, but who’s to blame?

Kalle Lasn has observed in today’s society everything is covered in advertisements. Natural beauty has been disturbed as well. Billboards sticking out of wheat fields like sore thumbs. Three thousand marketing messages per day !!!!! Estimated 12 billion displays ads,3 million radio commercials and more than 200,000 TV commercials have steadily and without relent invaded our everyday life. Kalle Lasn has pointed out how our minds are being bombarded with these riduclous need to promote products and sell.

I absolutely agree with the writer on the article. Even our childerns classrooms are being used by these companies. Pepsi and Snickers ads are shown to intise them to buy these products. Not just to buy some but more of every product. Its hard enough to get the kids away from T.V. and their video games, now we have to deal with it on everything and everywhere a child lays their eyes??

I think a limit should be put on the companies advertisement scope. It’s all up to the society though, to put a stop on the rat race between these companies. A childs mind from twenty years ago compared to a childs mind of today has drasically changed for the worse. I myself of the older generation enjoy the unspoiled views of nature and its beauty without all the hoopaloo.