Sunday, December 13, 2009

HW 29 - Merchants of Cool

Is it evil to help the corporations to manipulate the minds of young people for the sake of profit?

The word "evil' shouldnt be used for neither the kids helping corporations reach out to audiences or the corporations themselves. They run focus groups only to reach out. Teenagers happen to be the most popular and highest rated group of consumers to them. it seems reasonable for them to use teenagers as they're no.1 marketed research, as Adults have gotten too old or less "cool" to know whats in or out, and children are too young to understand most of these discussions or less mature than teens.

Then again, corporations also mention that teens are the hardest group to reach out to, as they seem in-cooperative and are hardest to analyze, digging into they're minds. Based on what teens like, its hard getting whats cool or uncool. When corporations actually find out what it is that most kids think is cool and others have yet to realize, it is publicized for the entire teenager audience to see, revealing its secrecy and its sense of coolness is no longer.

In the end, what seems like corporations going out of they're way(s) to make life more appreciative for teens through possessions, is nothing more then them only creating things for us to consume so that they can have us in they're pockets while we give them what is in ours. How evil can corporations be when we are aware of what they are giving us, and yet we complain while handing over our wallets. Selling our souls to the devil, that saying sounds familiar. We call them evil for brainwashing us, even though we gave them the information to start them off with, or for just taking our money.?

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