Merchants of Cool

[icypinkrose]

"It's so thoroughly about being on display. It's about how you look. We all imagine a million cameras facing us and recording everything. There's this acute self-consciousness that constitutes a tremendous psychological burden because you can never really feel like you're alone with yourself. You can never really feel like someone's not overhearing what you're thinking. ... Even in the deepest privacy of your own mind you'll often find a team them from some advertising agency, you know. That's the most criminal aspect of this whole system -- it seems to have colonized or tries to colonize the very consciousness of its young subjects."

This website (feauring a tv program) talks about the effects of marketing on teens. It's amazing how they can manipulate us by trying to start the "trends."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/