Buy these amazing shoes! They really work! You know how I know? Kim Kardashian endorses them and it just sounds really promising! Don't know about you, but I'm sold. Just look at the list of wonderful things you can get by just throwing on a pair of Shape-Ups!
Okay, so this is isn't the actual advertisement that we all saw on our televisions, but this one is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1G4hSpyWKc
Wow. Okay this is what I got from that: Put on these shoes and you'll lose weight faster and get a perfect butt and flat stomach like me! Sorry Brooke. Loved you on Dancing with the Stars but this is pathetic.
To make it even worse, Sketchers was sued for $40 million, because of the amount of knee injuries that were reported. That just sucks. So you spent the money on these terrible shoes, and instead of getting the perfect a** you were promised, you got some f*cked up knees. Damn. Was is super smart to trust an ad like this? No. But should Sketchers have B.S.ed the public with this immensely misleading advertisement? No.
In the Republic, Plato Socrates, calls propaganda "witchcraft." The reason this is an appropriate translate is because it "casts a spell" or alters what you believe and misleads you. I would have to agree with Senor Socrates on this one. It's amazing what some mass media can get the general public to believe. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a new pair of shoes to buy.
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