Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The G-force

Here is a link to a gatorade commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIlEv34dKVI

In Brave New World, there is soma which people drink because it makes them feel happy. Its like a happy pill. The people take it when they see that they are getting sad or unhappy. I think that they are forced to take soma so that they don't have strange or inappropriate thoughts. Everything and everyone have to he the same and if something is different then you make be expelled to another country. I believe that in our world we have something similar but not exactly the same. I'm thinking about gatorade. We see that many professionals drink this and we think that that is what makes them good so we drink it idolizing them. But what we don't realize is that that's just a way to promote it. If we see that Derek Jeter drinks gatorade, people are going to want to drink gatorade so they will be a good baseball player like him. The gatorade commercials brainwash us into thinking that we will become as good as professionals. So just like they take soma to continue being happy, we drink gatorade to be like Peyton Manning. It's all in the advertisement.

3 comments:

  1. So if we don't drink Gatorade (or become like these famous people), we won't really be happy?

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  3. Can you add labels/tags to your post?

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