Fashion, Food and Advertising

I read a lot. Some for entertainment, and lots for the gaining of insights into how women perceive themselves to be in today's world.

This is what Caroline Buchanan and Sandra Sedgbeer said in their book "The Sensuous Slimmer":

Fashion, advertising and food manufacturing are multi-million dollar industries. We all have to eat and we all have to wear clothes, and on the back of these needs a whole advertising empire has sprung up specifically to tell us why we need to wear certain types of clothes and why we should eat one brand of food in favour of another.

And indirectly, it is us, the people who are being conditioned and indoctrinated to prefer brand X to brand Y who are paying through he nose for our own indoctrinations. Without us and our simple basic needs, these million pound empires would not flourish. If we are paying for the dubious privilege then we should certainly have some say in our own conditioning processes".