So, are you saying that, in some ways, philosophy of marketing/advertising attempts to shape us all into its own economic, moral matrix so we'll be convinced to "buy into" that matrix?
I would say there is marketing which does this. But I think each product and marketer can be unique, not to necessarily say every one has to be alike.
Now there can be an advantage to having one product for all people . . . so it can be mass-produced and not cost so much as if a certain item were custom-made for each individual. Cars could cost a lot much more, if every body of a car was made unique, for each of millions of buyers . . . for illustration.
Yet, is it necessary to double the price of a basic car, by putting in a lot of computer wiring for a radio system, or to have aerodynamic fine-detailing so the car can smoothly ride at over a hundred miles per hour? And other things might be making a car at least twice what an efficient and safe car would cost.
Yes, we might care about that one person who will take police on a hundred and twenty mile-an-hour chase; that is somebody's son, there, and so we might want to pay our extra hundreds, each, so each year they can design a car researched to be safe for when our vagrant kids endanger themselves.
In any case, who could be marketing who? Some high-end auto magazine might be promoting a few expensive things for the structure of a car, and only a few people read the magazine, but the designers of cars might feel they had better do what the magazine says to do. Then everyone is helping to pay for those design items which would be extremely expensive, individually, for those few who would custom-order to be tweaked into their cars. And so, we get marketed to accept what a handful of people marketed the designers to do
And, like this, may be politicians are going along with certain emotional demands of a handful of protesters who got shown on TV. And then the politicians market the cause which was marketed to them by not really very many people. The ones in our faces on TV do not necessarily speak for all the members of a certain group or cause.
Right now, in Massachusetts, we have a deal about if we should make sure that each nurse has only so many patients to care for at any given time. The number, of course, varies, according to the level of care needed . . . fewer, even one patient for an I.C.U. nurse, I think it is, but more patients where the care is not so concentrated per patient.
But > there are "nurses" who vote one way on this while, if I remember right, there is the head of a nursing association who supports the other side. So, nurses are used to promote either side.
Why are nurses being used to promote either side? My opinion is that we all have been treated very kindly and caringly by some number of nurses. And still a nurse is usually a lady . . . maybe a mommie image. So, if "nurses" or a "nurse" says she feels very strongly that she needs things a certain way, we can be swayed by her say.
A number of nurses have seemed to give us more love, even, maybe, than we have gotten from even ones closer to us. So, yes this can be a very emotional issue, not only an economic and medical one.
Nurses are being marketed to go one way or the other; associations have been marketed and are marketing; and we the voters are being marketed.
Plus, a politician can possibly get the votes of all the voters for one side or the other. Even if the side with the most nurses loses on this > these nurses and one voting with them are likely to be highly attached to their feelings about this issue, so that a politician can market himself or herself for all their votes, just by saying something for their cause.
But what would Jesus say? Ones claim that EMT's would have to "hold the wall" at ER's until their patient can fit into the quota of one of the ER nurses. Well, I am told how EMT's can burn out, in especially active city areas. So, stopping to be able to breathe could be good for them; Jesus gives us "rest for your souls," we have in Matthew 11:28-30. Plus, Jesus stood up for Mary who was not busy busy busy with doing the housework with her sister Martha; so it could be good to be stopped for a while, even right in the middle of a busy medical workday. On the other hand, it seems no one has provided for how they will pay for having lower amounts of patients per nurse. It could be good, of course, for nurses to have fewer patients so they can be more personal with each one, but at least they could have made sure, somehow, that institutions will have a reasonable way to pay for having more nurses . . . while now even community nonprofit hospitals are closing because they don't have money to pay for staff they already have.
But here is how marketing can make it look as though things are predictable. There is the more or less spoken idea that humans will do this or that and there is no other possibility. There is the idea that humans can not change, even that God Himself will not change certain people out of certain personality problems. And, with this > part of pushing your marketed political position is to get people to assume that humans will be incapable of making something work well . . . unless it is the something you want people to accept!!
If it is what you want . . . for some strange reason, it is guaranteed to work well for everyone.
And, like I consider, after marketers have succeeded in making a political thing a very emotional thing which a group of people want very badly, now a politician can harvest all their votes by simply saying some thing in favor of their treasured cause.
In the United States, I see how one group of marketers is getting large groups of votes, simply by saying they are in favor of a number of individual freedom items. But independence can breed isolation so then one is isolated with one's cell phones and preferences for how to get pleasure, not really learning how to love and enjoy sharing with other people. And if you threaten such people with even more loneliness . . . if they don't vote for you . . . this can keep their votes with you, no matter what any facts are.
Meanwhile, another group has ones who get votes by claiming they are helping voters make money. And there can be lip service to "morals". But we hear the most about money. And, again, money and morals can be more about each individual, including having morals to control others around you, really so you can make money and live the way you please without interference. Again, it all can be a trick which isolates us in our own individuality with our own free wills, and we are not learning how to love > "without complaining and disputing" (Philippians 2:13-16), as our Apostle Paul does say. We can get deeply weak while dictating how things have to be our way, so in our weakness we can be giving in to arguing and complaining instead of becoming strong in love.
So, we can be getting marketed to suppose we can be our own dictators, either way . . . with pleasures and freedom, or morals and money. Each one's vote makes each one one's own dictator!! So, marketing of individual freedom has helped make many the slaves of their own dictatorship.
So, we need to be careful not to allow anything to have power over us, but stay with God Himself and how He personally rules us in His kingdom. Or else, if you can be controlled by any human-level thing, including your own (Luke 9:23-24), the ones who control that thing can control you.
