"Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch"
- J.B. Priestley
About this Quote
This quote by J. B. Priestley speaks with the power of advertising in our lives. In an age of constant advertisement, we are constantly bombarded with images of the best life. We exist with a seemingly best world, but it is an illusion. The ideal life that is presented to us is fleeting and fragile, and it rapidly vanishes when we attempt to touch it. This quote talks to the power of marketing to create an incorrect sense of reality, and how it can lead to sensations of disillusionment. It is a tip that the ideal life that exists to us is not real, which we need to be wary of the power of advertising to shape our understanding of the world.
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