Television Commercials

Why are there commercials on television, altogether?

If you take an economics course, they'll tell you that we have a market system, and a market is based on informed consumers making rational choices.

But when you look at a television ad, is the ad trying to make you an informed consumer, who's going to make a rational choice? Everybody knows that's complete garbage.

The purpose of the commercial is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices.

~~Noam Chomsky~~

Listen to Chomsky's talk on corporations