Love Mad Men. I’ll digress before I socio-politically rant off topic. The best advertisement for any show is the opening credits — Mad Men being advertisement does this brilliantly. A taste of the what before the so what …
Why watch Mad Men? Why Tweet? I don’t know, probably because everyone else is doing it; but, you just do — if you don’t like it, stop doing it. If you don’t like it, you don’t get it — but you’ll probably keep doing it because you want other people to think you get it.
Again, digress.
Our world is a mad mad ad world. Note the colorful, illustrative, detailed, skyscrapers portraying an idealized fantasy. No windows on these buildings, because you cannot see into the machine, you cannot see beyond the curtain to the Wizard of Oz. However these advertisements that tower above your reality, they are all you see as you come crashing down. Don Draper, the man behind the machine has no face. He has no identity beyond what he does — he is whatever you imagine him to be, and yet you don’t even know he exists. You live in his world the he creates, you are the product of a person who isn’t. The world is the canvas of an ad executive. To a man that is a mystery, the world reflects his ambiguity; the result: chaos created when perception is the reality. It’s all smoke and mirrors, it’s all smiles and veneers. That dream they create though — in the midst of all the chaos it creates — that portrayed ideal is “The Best America Has to Offer” it is “The Gift That Never Fails.”
Most apropos of all is the song — the theme — “A Beautiful Mine.” What a beautiful mine it is in which we live, just awaiting the explosion. What’s more American than fireworks, who cares how quickly you burn out as long as you burn bright?
Watch this space: the show is pretty much amazing
Sidenote: As a product of mediated modern society, I like shows where I can align myself with a character; Mad Men is not one of those shows.
(The) Epochauserie 