The Man Is Sticking It to the Man: Difference between revisions

** [[It Got Worse]] after [[Stephen Colbert]] criticized the campaign on his show, and they created an ad in response that basically accused him of being an evil conformist for having the audacity to disagree with them.

*** Then they bought airtime on his show to play the ad. And he thanked them for giving him the money "to buy more delicious mayonnaise".

* Used in a very odd and somewhat creepy Scion commercial, painting people in other cars as "Sheeple" and Scion owners as rebellious "Little Deviants" who feed on them. Yes, we're all going to blindly buy your car in order to reclaim our own free will.

** It should probably also be noted that Scion is simply one of Toyota's brands (along with Lexus).

* Several commentators on the documentary ''The Corporation'' note this trope's existence in [[Real Life]]. However, it's not presented as all doom-and-gloom -- they also note that, as long as demand for anti-corporate material exists, [[The Man|the corporations within a capitalist system]] will always provide supply to meet that demand, thus allowing for resistance and possibly even eventual subversion of them. How valid this point of view is [[Your Mileage May Vary|depends on the viewer]].

* For brevity, let's just say the highest-budgeted films with "anti-corporate" messages.

** Or: Filmmakers might see Wall Street Bankers and polluting oil-companies as bad but for-profit cinema as good.

** Or: Filmmakers really do harbor those anti-bourgeois attitudes, but are grudgingly cooperating with the Establishment because those guys run the show and they need to put food on their tables. Indeed, one of the eternal frustrations about being an artist of any kind on the planet Earth is that you'll always be at the mercy of [[Executive Meddling|the meddling influence of some external authority or another]], whether that be a totalitarian regime that censors viewpoints it doesn't like, an anarchocollectivist commune that resists innovation or individuality of ''any'' kind, or a capitalist system that victimizes artists with the tyranny of consumerism.

{{quote| '''Calvin''': Mom, can I have some money to buy a Satan-worshiping, suicide-advocating heavy metal album?<br />

'''Mom''': Calvin, the fact that these bands haven't killed themselves in ritual self-sacrifice shows that they're just in it for the money like everyone else. It's all for effect. If you want to shock and provoke, be sincere about it. }}

* A cartoon in a high-school political science textbook showed the hypocrisy of teenagers objecting to uniforms in public schools. It shows a long line of "cool" hip-hop aficionados wearing identical brand-name athletic clothing and saying "[[This Is Sparta|School. Uniforms. Would. Make. Us. All. Look. The. Same.]]" in creepy "cult member" fashion.

** John Lydon said something similar about gigging with the Sex Pistols and being annoyed that the audience were all dressed like him and the other band members rather than being individualistic: "I didn't get into punk to join the army".

* ''[[Charby the Vampirate]]'' has an [http://drunkduck.com/Charby_the_Vampirate/index.php?p=23843 example of this]. in one strip.

** And the same shirt is also debunked [http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00039.html here] in ''[[Goblin Hollow]]''.

 

 

* In a similar vein, [[Tony Hawks Pro Skater|Tony Hawk]], the world's oldest teenager. He's still one of the go-to sports celebs for being "rebel" and "extreme" and "edgy", when the man has more games under his name than there are versions of [[Street Fighter]].

** Also applies to a skating gang in American Wasteland. They believe that wearing shirts and shoes supports corporations, yet pants are fine. Not to mention that every member of the gang (except the player character) has a skateboard advertising the game itself!

 

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