Saturday, September 23, 2017
Perfect match
Youtube's Suggested For You is getting a bit lazy. Previously the SFY stuff kept up with everything I wrote here. Today and yesterday I wrote about Ripley and Manuel Rosas and museums and libraries and (as usual) a whole fucking bunch about globalists and analog vs digital.
None of these easily identified targets showed up. Instead SFY gives me a feature on the 1955 Packard, which I last mentioned two months ago. Late or not, the item is an exact match.
This is PRECISELY WHAT I WAS DISCUSSING.
Packard completely misses its target audience. The car is not demonstrated by a glamorous debutante to illustrate the no-muss easiness of shifting; it's driven by one of Packard's engineers with dirt under his fingernails.
"New touch-n-go driving"... What does touch and go mean? Precarious and possibly fatal.
"Like taking off on a trip to the moon!" You'll never come back from a Packard vacation. You'll be lost in space forever, looking forlornly at a tilted radio dial.
Drive like an engineer, get hopelessly lost and die in a vacuum. Perfect marketing to the luxury crowd.
The ad might have worked on existential hot-rod beatniks like Kerouac, but existential hot-rod beatniks couldn't afford new cars let alone Packards.
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