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Arrington on Advertising
Robert Arrington's "Advertising and Behavior Control" attempts to defend the advertising industry, and the practice of a company's exaggerated verbal claims, from the charge of "manipulation, exploitation or downright control" (283). Arrington contends that approaching this issue depends upon the philosophical concept of autonomy, a "complex, multifaceted concept" which requires an understanding of four things: "autonomous desire," "rational desire and choice," "free choice," and "control or manipulation." (285). The first of these is apparently a concept Arrington has derived from Friedrich von Hayek, who "argued plausibly that we should not equate nonautonomous desires…with those which are culturally induced." (286). In other words, suggestion is not compulsion. The second anticipates a line of criticism which states that it "leads us to act on irrational desires or make irrational choices" but he concludes that this leads to no "infringement of autonomy" in the sense derived from Hayek (286). The third concept of "free choice"...
By the time Arrington reaches the discussion of his final concept, "control or manipulation," his own subconsciouness slips into open revolt with his sneer directed at "teachers (at least those of the liberal persuasion)" who attempt to "influence" their students, which is not stigmatized as a form of "control." (289). He then wraps up with a hasty conclusion in which he notes that the concept of autonomy, which he has used to set the terms of his inquiry into whether advertising is in any way a form of "manipulation, exploitation or downright control," to decide that advertising is none of those things.
Arrington's analysis overall is shallow and tendentious. The problem with "culturally induced" desires is not so much that they impinge upon autonomy as that they may have other unintended consequences by affecting culture as much as they…
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