Adland_ Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet - James P. Othmer
For Judy, Isabel, and Jamie
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.
FLANNERY O’CONNOR
If God manifested himself to us he would do so in the form of a product advertised on TV.
PHILIP K. DICK
Contents
Part 1
It’s Hard to See the Writing on the Wall of a Cubicle
On Moral Advertising and Other Corporate Oxymorons
The Death of Darrin Stephens
One Huckster’s Beginnin ...