Personalization will ruin advertising

I was thinking a while ago about this, and I wonder if it's actually feasible. Feedback would be great, if you agree or disagree. Just bouncing crap off the wall here (yes, you're a metaphorical wall and I'm going to throw feces at you).

With the advent of personalized products, create-your-own-whatever gimmicks, and other sorts of things like those that target very small demographics, I wonder if advertising will eventually become obsolete. If everyone can basically make their own product, there won't be any reason to advertise. Of course, there has to be some kind of a company behind the personalization, but if it becomes common enough, there won't be any point in advertising.

I don't know if this'll be a good thing or not, but if everyone is the boss of what they want, and everyone gets whatever they want (greedy pricks), people who run around saying, "Hey! Look at my product! It's super great!" will be looked upon as idiots. People will reply with, "That's not what I want at all, you should give me the ability to change it to my specific needs." But then, maybe they'd still need to advertise, I dunno. Just a thought.

Maybe we should find a way to brainwash everyone and both blatantly and subliminally find ways to make them feel like they need what we can offer instead of their own personal wants. Oh wait, we're already doing that.

Why are people stupid?

I'm starting to lose track of how many times I have girls talk to me, crying that their boyfriend's a douche and hurt them, so they break up, and they're all sad, and things move on. Then, a month later (sometimes sooner than that), they're whining about the same thing. Usually with the same person.


How much sense does that make? I don't get it. "Gee, Mark, I know you cheated on me, hurt me emotionally and physically, but you say you love me after each of the six times you went behind my back, so you must be telling the truth! You wanna go back out?" Someone explain how the hell this is supposed to make any sense? I'm getting sick of hearing about it, especially because they never seem to learn. Two year olds seem to have more mental capacity. When they touch a stove when it's on, it burns, and they never purposefully do it again. And they're TWO. And here we've got 17 and 18 year olds burning themselves on the same stoves over and over again.


I can't understand. Something tells me I don't want to, but I feel I need to. Bah. Special thanks to Mr. Dio for making such awesome music that makes me feel better.


Moral of the story: think with your head, not your heart, especially when your heart keeps running into brick walls. Every try thinking of a different approach? Honestly.


"I am anger
Under pressure
Locked in cages
A prisoner
The first to escape"

Tada!

I hope you'll all excuse my not-post for the past two days. The fifth was Guy Fawkes day after all, and I was celebrating.


Okay, so I wasn't. I just didn't have time. As for the sixth, well, that was just a few minutes ago, and someone decided to call at midnight, so I couldn't finish it in time. So, since I need to wake up early tomorrow, I figure I'll make it up with some haphazard attempt at humor by talking about Mountain Dew.


It's the best, okay? Without Mt. Dew, I think Pepsi would probably die. Mt. Dew is their crowning jewel. I've got a whole case of Voltage (the best Mt. Dew ever) and it's making me get all bothered and hot.


Oh! And as it's nearing the holiday season, Oreo's have released those awesome white chocolate covered Oreo's, which further increase the amount of pants things. And I just realized my fridge door has been open for the past hour.


Also, I am hereby immune to tetanus and hepatitis A and B.


Moral of the story: I heard you're supposed to post consistently in order to establish more of a following, so I'm following that advice.

Why swine flu is good for the economy

Think about it: the economy starts to go downhill, Obama jumps in the office, and before you know it, BAM! H1N1 virus. Coincidence? You decide.


With the advent of this "swine flu," more people will be visiting hospitals, getting vaccinations, taking medicine, etc. All of those things have one thing in common (apart from health-relation so okay I guess it's two things): they cost money. What stimulates the economy? Spending money. Fellatio is also stimulating, so we should really try to make that a part of the plan, too. It's worth a shot, right?


I got an e-mail today from my hall director that said if you got swine flu, you should basically quarantine yourself and not go to the dining commons, chapel, or social events. If that's not bad enough, he said that if you had to leave for the toilet or shower, you should wear a mask and disinfect everything you touch.


Are we real with this? It's a strain of the flu. People get sick with the flu all the time. Regular flu kills, too. Why is this strain so violently different that we're going through all this hype? If anything, it will help stir things up a little economically. Oh, and it's all Obama's fault, because everything bad that happens in America is directly because of something he did or didn't do.


Moral of the story: conspiracy theories, if anything, are great comedic material (which subsequently creates more jobs for comedians and satirists, further fellating the economy).


Get sick (trust me, it's not that bad).

More Possible Racism

One thing I always found annoyingly hilarious is how everything has to be politically correct in terms of discrimination. Like those pictures in school textbooks. They've got a group of people standing around, and there's always an equal amount of guys and girls (usually four people). Every single person is a different ethnicity. If that's not awkward and unrealistic enough, there's always a guy in a wheelchair, to encompany the handicapped and disabled as well! Yeah, because some kid in a wheelchair is really going to get upset and offended that the guy in his Math book wasn't crippled.


WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?! (did you say that in a dramatic stand-up voice? You should've)


I swear, my old Spanish book had less Mexicans/Spaniards than not. I just don't get it. We're becoming so sensitive about everything these days. Do people really get offended by stuff like this?


Serious question, I want your feedback.


Moral of the story: racism is awesome. Double-standards are better.

Affirmative Action is a load of crap

RACISM! I can hear it now. No, I'm not being racist. Affirmative Action is racist, not me.


For those of you who don't know or are unsure what the term means, it is "A policy or program providing advantages for people of a minority group who are seen to have traditionally been discriminated against, with the aim of creating a more egalitarian society through preferential access to education, employment, health care, social welfare, etc." (egalitarian means "a person who believes in the equality of all people." Don't you love it when dictionaries define words with other words you don't know?)


Ignoring all the fluff and governmental propaganda dripping from the definition, AA is basically a rule that says you have to have a certain amount of minorities employed at your business, whether it be an office, factory, school, or clean-up crew (of course not every single business has this--how many Arabs do you see serving at authentic Mexican restaurants?). For example, for every forty-four presidents, there must be at least one black.


Sure, this seems like a great idea. Getting past racial barriers, breaking down walls, joining together, color doesn't matter, all that. And all of those are wonderful things. There's just one problem:


What if the employee sucks?


What if they can't, don't, or won't do their job well? You can't fire them, because that's racism (because we all know you're either egalitarian or racist; there's no in between). You can't turn down their application and hire a white guy instead. That's discriminatory.
So go ahead and hire the Kenyan woman, who doesn't understand poetry or the intricacies of the English language, as an English teacher. Anything else is simply racist.


People who do the job well should get the job. If the only people who can work a factory just happen to be white, big deal. It's not like any of that matters anyway. Performance is all that should matter. But, of course, it's not.