Commercials Cause Unhappiness

Burt Likko 11 Comments

I’ve been watching the Green Bay Packers every week with friends. Sitting through commercials on TV makes me aware of products I do not own and really can’t afford. Before, when I was ignorant, I was happier.

Burt Likko

Pseudonymous Portlander. Homebrewer. Atheist. Recovering litigator. Recovering Republican. Recovering Catholic. Recovering divorcé. Recovering Former Editor-in-Chief of Ordinary Times. House Likko's Words: Scite Verum. Colite Iusticia. Vivere Con Gaudium.

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  1. Commercials exist to create demand. If they don’t make you unhappy with your current set of possessions, they’re not doing their job.

  2. If its part of the action of the free market then it must be good and should not be questioned. Unhappiness is good for business.

    • We, as a society, have a responsibility to censor in order to maintain the level of ignorance necessary to ensure optimal productivity on the part of taxpaying citizens.

      • If I could give the FCC one free pass, though, it would be to ban commercials accusing people of not drinking a manly enough light beer.

        • Guinness should have a commercial that starts off with a bunch of idiots on a couch drinking Whatever Light beer, then have an Irish guy come in, put his Guinness down, then beat the shit out of all of them without much effort at all.

          Then pick his Guinness up and leave.

          • This is the best comment ever in the entire history of everything.

          • I would love that. It would be a failure, because it wouldn’t make me buy more Guinness, but I would tell everyone I know how great it was. Maybe one of them would buy more Guinness.

            My favorite commercial of all time was Joe Montana buying Dan Marino a soda after the Super Bowl. (“Hey, Joe? Next year, I buy”. Never did, of course.) I have no idea what kind of soda.

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