Sunday, January 12, 2025

TV ads mirror America's growing anti-intellectualism—a society that scorns reason and celebrates ignorance, ripe for charlatans


Bloody hell, these accursed TV ads are one day going to drive me away from watching most any sports, or anything else on television, period. Mind you, it says all that needs to be known about the state of things: advertisers know full well their craft—holding up a mirror to society and then forcing it down our gullets. And what a pitiful, foolish, and infantile reflection it is. 

Look at the state of us. Take a look around and see what doth stir folk to excitement these days. Absolute rubbish! Anything requiring half a brain cell, and the masses of #Murica turn away, unbothered and unmoved. To varying degrees, Americans have ever harboured disdain for intellectualism, yet never in my years—nay, perchance never in the annals of US history—hath this contempt burned so fiercely as in the past decade of Donald Trump being the central character in this Shakespearean tragedy. A nation of wilful ignorance and base spite, bereft of logic, reason, intelligence, empathy, or honour, shall ever prove easy prey for charlatans and scoundrels. It is futile to ask when this lamentable state of affairs will come to an end, for should anyone attempt to bring it to a close, the American people will fight tooth and nail to preserve that which they hold most dear—ignorance and unearned pride. Hence, why Donald Trump is about to be (figurehead) president once more.

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