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:
I read an interesting article once that talked about how cars are a luxury product that are only desirable if no one else has any. With loads of cars you can no longer travel faster than others or even particularly fast
edit: found it https://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/
It's a big lie that's sold for a century. "FREEDOM!... to be stuck in traffic with the other FREEDOM! buyers."
Car companies absolutely love conflating the actually-enjoyable experience of driving through a scenic, winding country road with no traffic with the shit we all do 95% of the time, which is sit in the same god damn traffic every single day to and from work.
It's a lie, it's always been a lie, yet we're coerced by lingering :grillman: :brainworms: to continue commuting in the freedom boxes even if it never made sense.
The thing is the vast majority of drivers find anything other than a straight lane terrifying