Of all the ads that I saw today, I think that the most thought-provoking one I saw was Christina’s ad about lines. Ha-ha not really. Really, the best ad that I saw was the picture of the Village of West Clay. I’ve always kind of seen that place as a creepy stepford wives sort of place, but I’ve never really looked at it for rhetorical value.
The comment that it is trying to reach back to an older way of life seems very true. The town center complete with open green and town hall shows that the village is trying to be like one of the old colonial villages out there in Massachusetts.
However, I think that their effort comes off as heavy-handed. Instead of harkening back to the good old days of America, it seems like this community is saying to the rest of the world we’re better than you and we don’t need to even leave the confines of our wonderful world to be happy.
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