What's your policy?
So, any ways, I don't often watch commercials since I got TiVo, but sometimes, I hear some music that makes me pay attention to the damn things. Liberty Mutual has produced a piece of advertisement that, in my opinion, is closer to art than commercial speech. In it, a series of people do random acts of kindness, which inspire other people to do the same. Over it, the beautiful song "Half Acre", sang by Sally Ellyson and Hem is played.
If only all commercials were as well done and inspiring as this one. I realize this is a little weird, but I'm a cynic that not only puts his shopping cart away, but any stray ones near him. I geuss I actually believe in the worth of people and unrewarded kindness more than I like to admit.
There. Is this post a little more hopeful than the last?
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Sally Ellyson
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Much better. :)
I do that with shopping carts, too.
If I leave another flattering comment, will I get you to comment in your own comments again?
I like that commercial, but somehow it disturbs me that it's an insurance company. Seems like they are taking advantage of our desperate need to see the goodness in people during these troubled times.
Or not. It's kind of a cool commercial.
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