Google's One-Way Window

Google's One-Way Window
I remember how excited I was with my first YouTube and Blogger accounts. I thought I had a window to the world that would let me spread my work and make me famous. But after erasing those accounts and trying again with the accounts I'm using now, I see how this window works. It stays open to let an army of frauds steal every good thing you might share in a ten year period, and then it closes on you when you try to get your property back. As an artist, I've always written from my heart. It takes a heart to produce music and comedy at my level, but the heartless business stole everything I shared that made people feel good: thousands of original posts. And now it looks like they want you to keep loving and trusting them for it.

After over twenty years of complaining about this crime against my work and my image on Blogger, I can say with certainty that my life would have been much happier if it weren't for Google. As long as they're going to keep blocking me from telling the truth in public, I guess I'm free to share my opinion of their worthless friends in advertising right here. So tell me, why do we need commercials to tell us what to buy? Can't we decide that for ourselves? I thought we were a free society. A free society doesn't use ugly manipulating power to herd its citizens like cattle through its shopping centers. (And are the Carlin fans cheering yet? Wait, I'm not finished.) Couldn't we get rid of all those tyrannical commercials and just let people shop through the Yellow Pages? Or would that put a bunch of empty suits out of a lucrative so-called job? Well then, wouldn't it be great if these advertising assholes found out what a real job is? Maybe then they'd have more respect for the paychecks of hard working consumers, instead of thinking that work is as easy for us as it is for them.

Someone says that they work hard on their layouts and copywriting. To what end? So it takes effort to construct an effective marketing campaign. I'm sure it does. Forcing consumers to buy against their will or better judgement must be a considerable task. I would compare it to covering a whole highway in dried mud, or perhaps to putting a thick coat of paint over all the glass towers: hard work, yes, but to what end? And what makes it easier for them? How about when they steal a bull's-eye from the web, like they did with those many many songs and blogs I wrote that were so popular the first time? And how do they handle my criticism? By putting my words - just like this - in the mouth of a guy like George Carlin and charging us all extra for it on our cable bills. How productive of them.

Please don't call it the art of persuasion when it's the use of force. A commercial may look abiding and respectful but usually involves some sort of psychological conditioning. Repetition, association, and so forth are always at work to illicit that Pavlovian response; to get us all drooling on command, as it were. And by overloading us with unfulfilled wants, they must cause a lot of depression. Youth are probably the most affected, being the most exposed. Commercials don't let you be happy with what you already have. They get you wanting to win the lottery or buy a new car or some new gadget or something, as if your life is not complete without it. And they want you to envy their stars for soaking up all that attention and making all that money. And they take advantage of bloody wars to increase their views. I try to avoid commercials, to help me stay happy, and I recommend it for everyone. I wouldn't let those marketing people 'program' my information or entertainment either.
  
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