Well well well! Look who's playing cultural critic today! The ordinarily zombielike arts staff at the New York Times has deigned to venture as to why so many of the Superbowl commercials were violent this year. Look out, masters of the obvious, it's the WAR! Who woulda thunk it?
Now, I hate to take a turn into negative town here, but I think that this little featurette might have missed something. It's true, the ads were obnoxious, insensitive, and violent (my personal vote for nadir-of-the-year being the one in which a mechanical crane committed suicide-- ha ha!). But such insightful cultural analysis got me thinking... is there maybe something else that reflects this Interesting New Tendency of Violence in American Entertainment? Something, say, like, the game itself? Or maybe, oh, OUR ENTIRE FUCKING CULTURE????
Nah, that can't be it.
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