Advertising Is Literally An Addiction

I just finished cleaning up inventory, I received from cleaning out a abandoned house with my friend’s family.

I was given the task of listing items we found while clearing out the house. It was quite a fun day to clean out the house.

Anywho, I noticed a very interesting slogan on one of the cd’s I was cleaning.

The flyer states “INCLUDES addictive puzzle game: SEGA SWIRL”.

The first thing I noticed was the swirl. This is something I have picked up on recently, many product logos include swirls.

When I see a swirl in a product logo, the first thing I think of is the “mind control” swirl.

This is because I have come to understand advertising as mind control. During the last 2 years, I have taken a liking to advertising and propaganda. I have had life experiences that led to seeing advertising as mind control in my own life.

These experiences led me to the actual information about the way advertising works, which has cemented that understanding within me.

Now, do I think that the swirl is having an impact on the viewer? Yes, I do. Here is why I think this.

1. People relate “mind control” to the black and white swirl.

2. When People view the “swirl” the subconscious associates it with “mind control”.

3. At a subconscious level, us humans realize advertising is “mind control” so seeing the swirl reaffirms this.

Most humans WANT to be advertised to though. There is a common theme in hypnosis that the hypnotized individual would have to be okay with being hypnotized. We can see this in the average consumer.

Moving along, the term “addictive” was the second thing I noticed. I noticed this as I scanned the document to my computer.

While I would usually see this as a benign buzzword, I no longer see it this way. After dealing with addiction, and knowing people that have also suffered from addiction, I understand the advertising attack and subversive language being used.

Why would someone want to be addicted to something? It is that theme we see from drug addicts. The self deprecating humor we hear from alcoholics. The comedic undertone that they cloak over their suffering.

Addiction is never a good thing. It doesn’t matter if you are running, reading, saving the poor, protesting etc. That is still a bad thing. Addiction takes one thing and makes it the central focus of your life (or a few things)

So instead of living life to the fullest people are stuck doing the same repeative basal tasks. This cd-rom is actually even more disgusting once you realize that the adults that we see today are the children who played on this cd.

Those children were indoctronoated into gaming addiction because the parents in their lifes couldn’t care less about the activities they took part in. Any sensible adult would not allow a child to game 8+ hours a day.

This flyer implies that you would be playing for 8 hours a day.

Advertising Is Within Itself, an Addiction

I think my interest in advertising actually stemmed from the fact that I am highly attracted to the art of advertising. I am actually getting a kick off of viewing the advert. It even seems like I would rather look at an advert than study advertising itself.

This is because of the level of psychology tricks used with in advertising. The creators of advertisements are using highly advanced psychological techniques to get you to bond with a product, before one even buys the product.

Think about that. Millions of people around the world are bonding with products daily, when they aren’t even using the product.

Going back to what I was just saying, people around the world are thinking about a product or experience instead of actively using a product. This means that people are getting those “feel good” chemicals just from the advertisements within themselves.

Thanks For Reading,

Aidan Hellrigel