Marketing wrinkles my brain.
How do we make people want something? Be willing to sacrifice other necessities to purchase it? How do we make a product so appealing in just thirty seconds time? Are we gullible enough to fall for that?
Apparently so.
Lately there have been a few companies who have pulled back the curtain to the marketing land of promise to show us how they make decisions and what they’re really selling. Here are a few examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knEIM16NuPg
Marketing wrinkles my brain because it tells me to be unsatisfied with my life. It tells me I am not enough without this status or product or achievement or mate. And it takes only 30 seconds to convince me of that.
I want a different mindset. A contentedness no matter my situation. A peace that isn’t product-based. How can such a mindset be maintained when I’m told otherwise so often?
Philippians 4:11-13
“I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”