On Budget Radio Ads

Anyone who owns a TV or radio has, at one time, been forced to endure the "budget" ad. While "budget" ads are almost exclusively limited to advertising local business, they nevertheless somehow manage to sound the same, no matter where you are in the United States. Whether you live in Grand Island, or Rhode Island, you most likely been recently alerted via the airwaves that a local car dealership is offering once-in-a-lifetime deals. This message is usually set to the music of that cheap, quasi-pornographic sythesizer warhorse that has been a staple of these ads since 1992.The announcer speaks with this HE-MAN-esque voice that is only used when advertising cars on the radio. The annoucner's voice is typically flooded with reverb effects at the points he wants most emphasized.

While these obversations are common place, they bring up an issue not widely discussed: why is it that these ads are widely accepted as perfectly normal? When one sits down and really thinks about these ads, its difficult not to conclude that they are really stupid, and a society that values its collective counciousness ought not allow such brain-numbing refuse to have so large of an impact, that everyone here knows exactly which commericals I'm talking about. Am I absolutely nuts if I think that we, as a culture, are paying a higher spiritual and mental price than we can possibly fathom by allowing our communal sources of information to be littered by this sort of filth?