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/^t/As we all know, commercials are omnipresent in our lives. We come across them on billboards and posters in the streets, in newspapers and magazines, on the TV and the radio. Yet, do we fully realize the implications of such a state of affairs? Most people do not suspect that advertizing is meant to shape their taste and even their behaviour in certain situations. By using the fallacious criteria of fashion, usefulness and economy, all of which are no really definable, people become consumers of the advertized goods. They are no longer treated as human beings, but as a bevy ofjerks who will buy anything they are offered. Unfortunatelly, this treatment of the customers works.