Prime-Time You was an interesting essay to say the least. I wasn't sure I could trust anything this guy was trying to say -- being that he is with the advertisers and who's job it is to predict trends in how I will react to certain marketable enterprises. Whatever.
Part rant against an ever changing society, part plea to humankind to stay as we are, I found the article to be a narcissistic view of humanity in general. Of course we are going to change. With technology, so goes our desires. This isn't the stone age anymore. If someone wants to do something, they will find a way to do it, to make it simpler to achieve.
His goals in life seem to circle around the idea that everyone can be lumped into a trend or an culture. The liberals, the 'button-down corporate America.' It just sounds to me that this mans life relies on the belief that we humans are a predictable sort and can be put in any trend or figure imaginable.
Bologna.
1) Do you agree with the author's perception of people's ever-changing desires and it's negative effects on us all?
2) Do you want what's cool to stay cool, or what's 'in' to stay 'in?' Or do you prefer the changing landscape of ideas and philosophies on what is the new cool?
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