Advertising for the Free Market Death Cult

We are nothing but consuming units for a death cult of moneyed interests. And they will use every trick in the book to make sure we are not paying attention.

Like playing on our emotions to make us think recycling is going to be the answer to our waste problems, by making  a cute little plastic bottle have dreams of seeing the ocean as a recycled bench (also playing on our innate credulity about the after-life).
Anthropomorphizing a plastic bottle in the commercial isn't about recycling. It's about the plastic industry telling us it's okay to consume more plastics. Ironic that they would use a bench, looking at the sea, since that's where all of the plastic waste ends up.
Just because they sell us billions of tons of worthless plasticized crap every year, it's not their fault that we don't recycle.
Probably the most offensive ad on TV.
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=how+much+of+our+plastic+is+recycled%3F&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-004

The plastic bottle commercial may be among the most cynical and nasty of our time, couched in a touchy-feely tone of environmentalism.


Exxon/Mobil's "Farmer in the Dell" commercial gives it one hell of a run for the money. BP used the same ploy some thirty years ago or so. While they were spilling oil all over ecologically sensitive spots, they were bragging about their research into clean energy. The trouble was, their stated research was costing them about .01% of their quarterly profits/per year. It cost probably %2 of their advertising and PR budget, and could be considered nothing but a part of their PR budget. All while funding think tanks to deny the science of climate change and dumping toxins all over the globe.

The Pharmaceutical Industry is doing a slam-bang job on the TV ad/propaganda front as well. Their ad touting research into drugs that save lives is a nice touch, until you consider their massive ad campaigns rival their R&D budgets. All while keeping most of their advances priced out of reach of most of the American population.


The REAL dark part of all this heavily financed prevarication? It works... All it has to do is muddy the waters, just a little bit. Add controversy where there is none, and slow down the discussion while they run away with the loot, poison our planet, and kill us off for pure profit. All in the name of "free markets". Free markets? Did I mention that they're some of the highest government subsidized industries we have?

It's good to be the king. It's better to OWN the king.