{"id":5422,"date":"2010-02-08T19:56:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2010-02-08T19:56:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:56:41","slug":"superbowl-ad-review-we-are-a-sick-sad-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/02\/08\/superbowl-ad-review-we-are-a-sick-sad-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Superbowl Ad review: We are a Sick, sad culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you consider that Madison Avenue buys our hopes and dreams at a low price and sells them back to us at an inflated price…<\/p>\n

… or, I guess, the Superbowl ads tell us about our culture’s psyche, perhaps.<\/p>\n

We like to hit to the ground older women.\u00c2\u00a0 Betty White goes down.\u00c2\u00a0 That college football star’s mom goes down.
\nMen can’t find their pants.\u00c2\u00a0 Also we’re desperate for various consumer products to compensate for a deflated sense of self.
\nThe Green Police are coming.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, building houses out of beer cans somehow makes sense in an environmental sustainable way.
\nWe will make babies into adults, and have teddy bears partying down in Vegas.<\/p>\n

All righty then.<\/p>\n

Focus on the Family released that humdrum ad, sticking close to CBS network guidelines.\u00c2\u00a0 The odd focus by some conservative commentary and polical cartoonists<\/a> misses the point of the ire.\u00c2\u00a0 Shocked by this display of Focus on the Family vaguely alluding to an anti-abortion advocacy — what after seeing the latest tedious godaddy ad that invites everyone to their website for what they seem to suggest will be some soft core porn displays.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually the controversy of issue advocacy stems from past nays– a year or two ago the Church of Christ offered up an ad promoting their “inclusiveness” suggesting that they accept the gays.\u00c2\u00a0 This year, the comparison gets to be the gay dating site which was shot down…<\/p>\n

… though weirdly enough<\/a>, the allusion to the gays came in to that ad.
\nSo it’s Meghan Fox wondering if sending a photograph of herself and a lot of her skin — in a bubble bath — over the Inter tubes would cause any effect.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose I should mention that if you google image “Meghan Fox”, you will find more risque images than that offered with this ad.\u00c2\u00a0 Forgetting that, and supposing for a moment a spanking new image of Meghan Fox will — say– distract a heterosexual guy holding a ladder for someone, and cause a great crash…<\/p>\n

… Why does this cause a commotion between the gay couple?\u00c2\u00a0 Is this another male fantasy, akin to the idea that all women have great Lesbian desires (see, clips from the Meghan Fox movie “Jennifer’s Body”<\/a>) — that all gay men are secretly heterosexual?\u00c2\u00a0 If so, what does that bring us? — the former fantasy at least brings us something.<\/p>\n

In short, the Superbowl ads show that we are a sad, sick culture, and the male demographic age 18 through … 45, let’s say … is lost somewhere.<\/p>\n

Maybe the Letterman – Leno ad shows us something about our desire for Reconciliation.\u00c2\u00a0 But even that is a false message — looking through the comments section in the media pieces about that ad, I see references to “Now if only the Democrats and Republicans were paying attention” — an incoherent sentiment never really rewarded which tends to get parties rolled.<\/p>\n

The Simpsons had a topical enough ad.\u00c2\u00a0 Too bad I can’t really remember what the ad was for.<\/p>\n

And congratulations to the team that won the game.\u00c2\u00a0 My interest in sports is waning — not quite where I was at the age of, oh say 12, but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you consider that Madison Avenue buys our hopes and dreams at a low price and sells them back to us at an inflated price… … or, I guess, the Superbowl ads tell us about our culture’s psyche, perhaps. We like to hit to the ground older women.\u00c2\u00a0 Betty White goes down.\u00c2\u00a0 That college football […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5424,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions\/5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}