Jan 10 2012
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“ The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication—the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in Mad Men. This maddening show is nothing more than a soap opera, set in a glamorous office where stylish fools hump their appreciative, coiffured secretaries, suck up martinis, and smoke themselves to death as they produce dumb, lifeless advertising—oblivious to the inspiring Civil Rights movement, the burgeoning Women’s Lib movement, the evil Vietnam war, and the other seismic changes during the turbulent, roller-coaster 1960s that altered America forever. The more I think about Mad Men, the more I take the show as a personal insult. So, fuck you Mad Men—you phony, “Gray Flannel Suit,” male-chauvinist, no-talent, WASP, white-shirted, racist, anti-semitic, Republican SOBs.
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George Lois, in an excerpt from his forthcoming book “Damn Good Advice”
via Kempt
