Marketing strategists and addiction may be the devil himself.
Addiction, the quality or state of being with the compulsive need or use of a habit-forming substances, state of mind, or accumulation. The end result being harmful to the entity and painful withdrawal.
Most would agree that most of American society today is addicted. To wealth, power, personal beautification, self-gratification, and lack of responsibility. Normally religion and discipline have kept these in check, but with the dawning of the “me generation” and a permissive, anything goes society both are loosing control.
In a driving, “dog eat dog business world” to achieve greatness and supremacy, greed and wealth have created monsters. The engine to power these have been market analysts and strategists. They have used every ploy, tactic, and scheme to addict the public to follow the pied piper. Once addicted, withdrawal is too painful to stop. The more of society’s, political, and religious rules and laws are broken and ignored the greater the ability to create addiction.
I am reminded of the fall and collapse of the Roman Empire. As the need for wealth, power, personal gratification and beautification, the breakdown of politics, lack of respect for law and order, it came to be total collapse. Take a look around you. See what drives individuals, business, and politics. We have thrust the needle into societies arm and have the devils smiling.