The magazine label reads first, "READ MORE AT NEWYORKER.COM," then it says,
MY NAME
MY ADDRESS.
Now, I like The New Yorker all right, except for their inexplicable use of profanity, but it was a little jarring to see a promotion for the magazine's web site printed as if it were part of my address.
But this is what it has come to as we approach the final years of the second decade of the 21st Century. People are "customers," "targets," and more. Is it not this way of seeing people, which gets us angry? Are we human still? Or are we merely entities to be enticed, deceived, and exploited by big businesses? (As I understand it The New Yorker is owned by Conde Nast and, along with other magazines in the group, is suffering circulation woes. I sympathize with their plight.)
It is long past time for a revision in the way our vast marketing and financial worlds are ordered.
People are tired of being ordered around.
Best wishes from TMP for a wonderful Christmas lead-in period.
MY NAME
MY ADDRESS.
Now, I like The New Yorker all right, except for their inexplicable use of profanity, but it was a little jarring to see a promotion for the magazine's web site printed as if it were part of my address.
But this is what it has come to as we approach the final years of the second decade of the 21st Century. People are "customers," "targets," and more. Is it not this way of seeing people, which gets us angry? Are we human still? Or are we merely entities to be enticed, deceived, and exploited by big businesses? (As I understand it The New Yorker is owned by Conde Nast and, along with other magazines in the group, is suffering circulation woes. I sympathize with their plight.)
It is long past time for a revision in the way our vast marketing and financial worlds are ordered.
People are tired of being ordered around.
Best wishes from TMP for a wonderful Christmas lead-in period.
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