(Originally Posted Saturday 19th July 2007)
I have always had issues with the wonderful world of advertising for the way in which it presents the world and often steals the creative work of talented individuals without a second thought and passes it off as its own. I agree with Bill Hicks's equating of advertising with the defenition of pornography.
I was reminded of this fact today whilst watching an advert in which Andie MacDowell frowns and shakes her head at her wrinkles and the espouses the virtues of the anti-wrinkle cream the advert is hawking. She comments that the really deep wrinkles are the thing that everyone notices.
Of course, if I met her in person, that's the first thing I'd think: look at her wrinkles. I wouldn't think; there's that stunning American actress who looks as good now as she did when she was 20 years younger.
No wonder we live in such a shallow society, so filled with pointless worries and concerns.
When we should look at a beautiful older woman and admire her, we have to think that she does it by using a pot of expensive crap made in a lab.
It's very sad.
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