This is just the blossoming of seeds I've seen planted in advertising for years...The Citgo commercials have been airing for a couple of years now, the eco-commercials have been using kids to shame their parents, and there have been commercials pushing "less me, and more "we."
Here's THAT one, plus a really nasty eco-guilt trip ("becoming a better man: priceless"), and an anti-progress cereal commercial. These I posted elsewhere last May, and it's only getting worse, apparently...
There are entire generations, kids with cams, that think Totalitarianism is hip.
They've been properly 'socialized.'
And, a free nation allowed it to happen, basically, by treating freedom so lightly.
It wasn't the generation that left 400,000+ in a meatgrinder fighting Totalitarianism who took it lightly. It was pretty much their clueless kids, the ones born into Disneyland.
I saw that 'Eco-police' commercial during the Super Bowl, and I've rarely witnessed anything so downright frightening. I know it was supposed to be coy and humorous, but as the vision it presented seems an all-too-real possibility in the near future, it hit too close to home.
Gotten mixed messages from libertarian-leaning people I talked to about the Green Police ad. Some agreed with Luke Morris, others took it as a dissing of Green politics by showing how simultaneously silly and frightening their effects might be.
My intial reaction was the latter, but the ambiguous ending seemed to actually endorse such thinking.
Not sure if the intent was to be ambiguous, or whether it was a case of the creatives having their ad messed with by the insertion of the endorsement at the end by the sponsoring company.
