Blog 1: "Hype"

The passage hype is about how today's world there is no way to escape commercials and advertisements. Explaining how Ad's are now even in shopping carts. In the passage it states that "Advertisements are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants." I agree with that statement because it's true companies now a days will go so far into advertising their business that you simply cannot escape it. Text messages about student loans, emails even regular mail from companies I've never heard of makes me wonder how they got my address and phone number. Watching TV is not the same anymore it's just mostly commercials taking time away from your show. I think even music videos are starting to turn into Ad's something we use to enjoy watching our favorite celebrities are turning into toxic. Britney Spears is a culprit of this. In her first good video since her comeback, all it mainly was about is showing a make-up line, showing off a Samsung tablet, some new headphones and worse her own perfume. Magazines as well it feels like they are filling their pages with Ad's to look thick and seem like they have great stories but it's not. One "Newspaper" that I cannot stand (2 actually) is the AM New York and Metro. A professor of mine pointed this out to us that those so called newspapers are just full of Ad's. It's crazy how much we don't realize it that this world is just being attacked full on with logos commercials advertisements of anything anywhere anytime when you least expect it. The way the passage ends I like very much "I often used to hear Beethoven's 9th Symphony play in my head. Now I hear that kid singing the Oscar Meyer wiener song." I feel the same way as that man in silent moments of my life I don't hear the 9th Symphony but, I used to hear my favorite song now all that's stuck in my head is the JG Wentworth song that I can recite no lyrics needed.