Other commercials suck, too. And yes, I know there's ways around most of those commercials, but for those of us that have to stand in line at banks, have no say in what the gym has on its screens everywhere, have to sit in dentist or doctor offices well past the appointment time, or maybe just want to watch a show that isn't available anywhere else (yo ho ho pending).
With that aside, really sucks having to sit through car commercials in particular. They're extraordinarily pretentious. Relatively speaking, I actually miss the 80s-90s loud car salesman antics on TV about how many horses are under the hood and how much cash back if you jump through some hoops. Now, it's some pretentious speech about what kind of consumer drives the car, about how dynamic and free thinking and primordially in tune and rugged and sophisticated and otherwise amazing they are.
And it's always some long stretch of empty road. I sometimes wonder if some of road rage mentality is partially a subconscious response to other cars existing on the road, a sort of "this is supposed to be my life changing epiphany! My epic adventure! Get off my road of dreams!" :frothingfash: thing.
Most commercials are anxiety-inducing, grating, obnoxious, but car commercials are the worst of them all.
Deliver us, o train, for we are in need. :train-shining:
The world of those commercials could only exist in a mass-transit utopia where driving is always inferior to public transit, and owning a car is a result of deliberate lifestyle choices and hobbies rather than not having any other good methods of transport and self-expression.
There’s some irony in that a society built around cars gives you the worst experience of every aspect of cars.
Buying them is worse because they’re almost all soulless and interchangeable, and still overpriced.
Maintaining them is worse because maintenance is designed around everyone taking their car to a dealership and not user-maintenance or even local mechanics.
Driving is worse because everyone else has to drive too
Even the car infrastructure is worse because everything has to be transported via semi-trucks that account for 90% of road wear and every 200 feet they need another stoplight to handle the fact that everyone else is driving.
I've noticed how many vacation sites and picturesque vistas and places that people want to pay money to visit have working mass transit and lots of walkable spaces. But carbrain refuses to make the connection.