Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.
There's something quite shocking in this idea that everything is disposable and that people don't care for things anymore.
We have become too much a society of consumers rather than a society of citizens.
These days malls are the cathedrals of the modern world, and old buildings that had character are gone to allow for econo-worship and peso-pilgrimages.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.
