OK. I hate those ads. Unfortunately, I had to sit through multiple instances of various Vegas ads while watching the BYU-Oregon game (go Cougs!). Not only do these commercials imply that the Vegas-goer spent his time gambling and fornicating and doing all other kinds of things that, by the very nature of the implication, bring shame (why else would you not want people knowing about what you did?), it condones the following actions to hide your guilt:
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Lying (Like the guy getting his brain examined because he “forgot what happened for an entire week”)
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Blackmail (The lawn services guy threatening to tell people about what his client did in Vegas)
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Secret-keeping within a marriage (a common thread through each commercial)
I hope America as a whole hasn’t honestly sunk to such a level as to accept the messages of these commercials as the norm.
February 19th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
[…] So what I don’t get is why we can spend so much energy slamming Bush for his foreign policy while we let 15 more people die here for every one that loses a life in Iraq and we do relatively nothing about it. Why? I guess it’s a weak and easy strategy to heave blame on someone else so we don’t have to feel guilt for our own misdeeds. Plus, if we really cracked down on alcohol misuse, we wouldn’t have those hilarious commercials. I mean, talking frogs. That’s good stuff. That’s worth 16,000 citizens a year. […]