Monday, March 30, 2015
The Arts of Selling
Sadly I wasn't able to participate in the discussion in class; but I still want to explain what I found interesting in the reading. This reading made me view my life in a different light. It basically explains the process of selling by targeting at the naïve minded people and using their ignorance against them. I see this a lot with not just every day news, but with ads for products, politics, and entertainment. It made me realize how I have such a lack of knowledge for everything and I only do or buy anything because of the simple facts I know that I want to hear and the looks. They display with so much action and in a short amount of time using the right loaded words that make me want something I probably don't need and I end up choosing that I don't need to know anymore. To live life were ignorance is bliss is scary, but then I also question if it's for the best. Is ignorance bliss to an extent?
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I don't think you have a lack of knowledge for everything; I think we just forget that we are being deceived and let it happen or we either don't know that we are being deceived.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, ignorance is bliss to an extent. The consumer of a product might experience bliss for a while, but it's temporary. Think of Brave New World: the people in that society, like the director of the centre, strongly believe that if people don't know about their true potential, then they'll be happy. However, things happen. Take Hemholtz, for instance. He was only able to blissfully live in his ignorance to an extent. People naturally begin to realize aspects they didn't know before, and that realization is where the extent lies.
I just want to reiterate what you said: "if people don't know about their true potential, then they'll be happy." American culture is so consumed with the idea of progress that we are constantly overworking ourselves. We want to reach our goals and do better at everything. If we didn't know that we have the potential to succeed or to do better we would never want to change our socioeconomic status and we wouldn't make all the decisions that we do in hopes that itll benefit us in the future. I really love how you phrased that!
DeleteI agree with both Alexia and Daycy. I see propaganda on a daily. On a political level, during WWII, the people of Germany were completely ignorant to Hitler's true intentions. Do we see this in our own government? It's crazy how the art of selling can go as little as a makeup ad to a whole political system.
ReplyDeleteAbout your comment on Hitler's propaganda, you have to remember post WWI left economic restrictions on Germany, it left most people poor & Hitler promised to fix that. They were willing to try anything. They continued to support him afterwards because, before he started his war, he was doing what he promised and things in Germany kept getting better, if you weren't a Jew, that is.
DeleteIgnorant or wanting to believe Hitler is actually helping?
Completely agree with your comments. I mean we all need progress to feel satisfied. Even in Brave New World the so called "defected" weren't just satisfied with what they had. They wanted more. So ignorance is bliss to an extant .
ReplyDeleteI agree. Progress is what we need to be satisfied. Without change, we cant move forward. In the art of selling, we learn that we are easily brainwashed today by products that we may or may not need. Even when we get what we what, it still might not be enough to keep us happy.
DeleteI agree with you, it's so weird how in such a few amount of minutes, sellers are able manipulate people into buying products that most of the time we don't even need.
ReplyDeleteThat is true alot of the products are really not needed . Its kind of a waste of money for them to advertise.
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