The critical thing people have to always remember is that
advertising and entertainment are always a performance. It’s just a show. Nothing is real. All of the participants are actors pretending
to be something they are not. The
storyline normally does not reflect any real events. If a movie were based on a true story, the
whole recorded episode is at best a reenactment with many elements usually
changed for entertainment purposes. Because
of this, the whole entertainment industry rings hollow; not a bit of it is
real.
No sane person should be unable to
recognize the fiction to it all, but then again we are not all sane when we
watch.
The past time is intended to amuse us, to preoccupy our
times of boredom, to distract us from real life. In being entertained,
perception alone becomes our mind’s focus.
We turn off our critical thinking skills and off with it goes our
ability to reason. We can become like
zombies watching TV. Recognizing lies becomes more difficult in this
state. The industry aims to achieve this
suspension of disbelief. When achieved,
linking certain human interests with certain products or services can greatly
influence people’s behavior. The
associations could be quite poor at face value, but under the trance of
entertainment they can be easily internalized.
Poetic faith can make life imitate art.
Marketers know this is mind manipulation. They want you to buy their product or service
and they are exploiting your mental vulnerabilities to do it. Advertisers know these games work or they
would not spend billions of dollars every year in the activity.
They know people are prone to worship images. To us, a picture is worth a thousand words. If you can picture their gimmick satisfying a
need, you are sold. Advertisers glorify
things solely as a means of moving you to buy their tickets. Passions are always shaped by a person’s
train of thoughts. Alter a person’s way
of thinking and you will alter their feelings.
As a man thinks in his heart so is the man, the Scriptures say. The pathos hidden in entertainment greatly
influences how people think and feel. Marketers
peddle their products with a motive for money making. They want you to swallow what they have to
offer. They want it to intoxicate
you. People overcome with what they are
selling make for a very loyal customer base.
They don’t care if their
marketing strategy impairs your judgment.
They don’t care if it makes you mad; if it makes you stumble. Entertainment, advertising, and marketing
industries are responsible to some degree for all the depravity in our society. God will condemn mystery Babylon for making
the inhabitants of the earth drunk with her spiked drinks; for making them
confused. The term Babel means
confusion.
This does not leave us without any blame. The entertainment industry may get rich at
your expense, but they can’t do all this without your express consent. You permit them to do this. If you don’t wish to be deranged, don’t drink
what they have to offer. No one would
supply these products if there were not demand for it in the first place. As a consumer, you create the demand. You vote with your pocketbook. Forsake these things en masse and the
industries will die of their own accord.
Industries appeal to people’s vices because it makes them money. Take that away from them and they will be
compelled to reform. Reforming society
always begins with reforming the individual first. It all begins with you. Allow God to clear up your thinking and
society could very well follow.
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