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Viral Marketing Breeding Cynicism
New Media Blogger writes "First Lonelygirl15, now Bridezilla. Canada's National Post provides an interesting perspective on the newest trend of using viral videos as marketing tools, and how these fake blogs or 'flogs' are having a pernicious effect on our tendency to trust what seems genuine."
The problem is that a generation of Americans (speaking for my own country) has been pumped so full of non-judgmentalism, relativism, and revisionism by public schools that a majority of us can no longer discern it from shine-ola.
If every point of view is equally valid, and all persons equally deserving of respect, then why should we bother learning how to think (as an older education would have it), or even what to think (as a modern education would have it)? Why should we bother learning the difference between lies and mistakes, between manifest and latent properties, or between good guys and bad guys? That's right--a long time ago, students troubled themselves to elucidate the natures of Truth, Beauty, and Justice. Now we get classes on S&M.
This viral marketing "crisis" may be interesting, but it is the least engaging symptom of a very real problem.
Don't trust anyone under thirty.
yet they still seem to trust bush.
They're using their grammar skills there.