adbusters.org

In their own words, "Adbusters is dedicated to reinventing the outdated paradigms of our consumer culture and building a brave new understanding of living..." Basically it wants you to look at the site and make you think about what big companies are doing to our world. The site is well designed and easy to use. The best part are the spoof ads, ripping off famous ads by companies such as McDonalds, Calvin Klein and Absolut Vodka. The ads are funny but they have a serious message, making you think about the power advertising holds over our society. The Calvin Klein spoof ad for the perfume Obsession is a good example. It shows the back view of a ...

This site was set up to change we live in the 21st century. It seeks to make what's accepted as a 'way of life' into something totally 'uncool' by changing attitudes. The authors of the site are a diverse group of activists, students, writers, pranksters and educators (not to mention students). This is what they call the 'new social activist movement of the information age'. Adbusters publish a magazine which has mostly US subscribers (60%) but is attracting readers drom all over the world. Previous campaigns include 'Buy Nothing Day' and TV Turnoff Week. Ultimatelt though, this is an ecological magazine ...

I was intrigued by the URL "adbusters.org". I suppose I must have been expecting a site devoted to making fun of bad adverts. Sadly this was not the case. It is instead a site set up by one of the scions of the anti-capitalist brigade and is seemingly intended to make us not want to go shopping on 24th November "in protest" at something or other. The people behind this site really don't have a clue about what they are talking about: trade and consumerism have made people's lives better since the year dot. The urge to control what other people say, think and do is what motivates these pathetic middle-class ...