Consumer power and corporate influence
Two teenagers encourage others to stop spending money on several industries, using the internet and tactics associated with corporate schemes.
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Tom Matthews - Author
This is a satirical story about teenagers turning consumer choice into organised dissent. Its central appeal lies in the collision between youthful collective power, commercial persuasion and adult claims to authority.
What if they just stopped?What if in a grand, scruffy stab at corporate disobedience, teenagers en masse simply stopped spending their money on the cynical crap that's relentlessly mainlined to them: the addictive and deadly cigarettes, the hateful music, the crude and desensitizing videos and movies?What if they stopped buying that $#!%—just to cause trouble?That's the radical notion behind Like We Care, a biting, clever, and hilarious satire in which two endearingly subversive high school seniors set out to monkey wrench the recording industry, the cigarette industry, the junk food industry – indeed, much of the American money machine. Marrying the internet to corporate America's own schemes and weapons, they slowly, reluctantly launch a grassroots campaign, with racial, political, and cultural implications, that harnesses the awesome, untapped power of teenagers flush with cash and inflamed by adult hypocrisy.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a satirical story about teenagers turning consumer choice into organised dissent. Its central appeal lies in the collision between youthful collective power, commercial persuasion and adult claims to authority.
Two teenagers encourage others to stop spending money on several industries, using the internet and tactics associated with corporate schemes.
Teenagers are portrayed as challenging adult hypocrisy while recognising their own collective financial influence.
Notice how the satire treats the industries, the campaigners’ tactics and the language of adult hypocrisy. Ask whether the humour sharpens the criticism or makes difficult consequences easier to overlook.
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