Ads, ads, ads

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/business/media/15everywhere.html?em&ex=1169010000&en=ca74c65f6ebbab70&ei=5087%0A
I haven't figured out how to do that fancy blog stuff where a link is a word that's a different color than the rest of the word so you know its a link. However, this is an article about how everywhere we look there are ads. This is one of my big observations while traveling through Europe. There are less ads there. When you drive down the freeway (I was in a bus) you don't see and billboards. Even in the cities it is just different. I thought about the reason why. I think there are ties to the idea of Capitalism. It is the idea that if you have a product you can make a niche for it through advertising. Man I chose the wrong profession. It begs the question of American consumerism as well. High debt because according to visa doing x, y and z is priceless and you should put it on your credit card. Because at the end of the day who really benefits from a 9% interest rate.... you right? We need stuff to feel ok about ourselves. Hummers aren't oversize, expensive, taxing on the environment, a military vehicle, they are, according to Borat, a pussy magnet. (sorry about the abusive use of the comma in that last sentence.) That's right a status symbol of guys who get chicks, or mid-life crisis machine, or any other ridiculous or absurd reason. (I'm putting a hummer on my Visa next week because the feeling of paying to put gas in a hummer......priceless). Well, someone is doing there job because I'm sitting here in my Lucky jeans and my element shirt, typing on my Dell computer, ran by comcast internet. Thank you ads, I wouldn't be nearly as cool without you.