If you're like me, Audi's Green Police ad during yesterday's Superbowl was sort of a high point of creepiness -- and not just for its boomerific revival of a classic Cheap Trick song. No, the celebration of the right car purchase -- a "clean diesel" -- as a get-out-of jail-free card for a totalitarian eco-state sort of ruined car shopping for you while also hinting a bit too strongly at the direction in which the world is inching in its intolerant, lemming-like way.
Our friends in Britain already have to worry about government snoops pawing through their garbage and forcing their way onto private property to make sure residents of that unfortunate country are separating their glass from their plastic and doing business in officially approved ways. Maybe ... just maybe ... we're not that far off from the day when buying the the "correct" brand will count as a pass at roadblocks staffed by armed recycling fanatics.
I guess the only question is whether Audi thinks this potential Brave New fluorescently lit World is a good thing, or whether the company is warning us that it, Schindler-like, is our only hope.
The Audi advertisement glimpse of our eco-conscious (or else) future is below.
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I too found it in equal measures creepy and condescending.
Very creepy ad. I bought my last three cars for cash. I will not be buying an Audi anytime soon.
What the hell is that beastie at 0:42?
Steve,
I think it's an aardvark. Funny touch.
once they saw that they could do things like that to smokers, it wasn't much further to do it to everyone else (alcohol will be next)
This is absolutely horrifying! I have seen police attacking innocent people like this - I have horror stories that I can't tell most of the time because nobody wants to believe this TYPE of behavior is already going on. Audi better fire their advertising department... I saw the commentary on this thing over at youtube.com and most people were very upset by it. Violence - particularly police violence against innocent people is neither amusing or a good marketing angle.
Walrus, they are already doing this in TX. They are pulling people over under suspicion of DUI. Sometimes it's the cops word over yours and they always win (happened to a friend of mine who was convicted of DWI with NO evidence) or else the cops hold people down and assault them with deadly weapons, in this case, needles and siphon blood from their bodies by the side of the road. When this first started happening there was outrage, but only lasted about a week. They said they weren't going to do it, then they did it anyway. My advice: Never go to TX. I was nearly murdered by police there about a year and a half ago and they killed our unborn daughter. I was held at gunpoint by police and a man claiming to be a deputy after they attacked my husband, terrorized us for an hour and robbed us. This is now considered NORMAL down there... So, it isn't that this is "going" to happen - it is happening. It has happened to me. It happened to Oscar Grant and his family, etc., etc.
The "beastie" is an anteater. Their brains are almost as small as the brains of most statists.
Walrus, they are already doing this in TX. They are pulling people over under suspicion of DUI. Sometimes it's the cops word over yours and they always win (happened to a friend of mine who was convicted of DWI with NO evidence) or else the cops hold people down and assault them with deadly weapons, in this case, needles and siphon blood from their bodies by the side of the road. When this first started happening there was outrage, but only lasted about a week. They said they weren't going to do it, then they did it anyway. My advice: Never go to TX. I was nearly murdered by police there about a year and a half ago and they killed our unborn daughter. I was held at gunpoint by police and a man claiming to be a deputy after they attacked my husband, terrorized us for an hour and robbed us. This is now considered NORMAL down there... So, it isn't that this is "going" to happen - it is happening. It has happened to me. It happened to Oscar Grant and his family, etc., etc.
I'm sure there are a bunch of directors sitting around a board room in Germany today, going, "Vat? Vat? Vy are people zo upzet?"
This advertisement undercuts the "green" movement so effectively that these idiots have practically disemboweled their own entire marketing approach.
I too found the Audi ad to be disturbing. Let's just hope it's a wake-up call for the rest of us, because that is definitely where we're headed. That's not the world that I want to live in!
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