consumerism

Television commercials have become something to look forward to, since the overall quality of content on TV, whether cable or broadcast, is getting more miserable by the day. It used to be, at least to my way of thinking, that there was a difference between the level of intelligence expressed in high-end television commercials during major productions and certain hours of the evening, and the plastic crap commercials that generally come with the late-night swill I watch. You used to be able to determine easily what time of day it was by the overall tenor of the commercials running at that time. Ditzy housewives who couldn’t make things clean was a big give-away during the daytimes, with automobiles, aluminum siding and beer taking up the evening hours.

The fourth in an on-going series of unauthorized classroom occupations and underground documentary film screenings taking place on the Fort Lewis College campus in Durango, CO. This week we will be examining and discussing consumerism, corporations, capitalism, and globalization. (Let me know if there are any type-o’s in the flyer.)