For the life of me I cannot remember who tweeted about this, but thank you. If it was you feel free to comment at the bottom for attribution.
EXPERIMENTS IN
THE LABORATORY OF CONSUMERISM
1959-67: by Adam Curtis
There you have it. Adam Curtis may have written the best article of 2010. It's long. It's in depth. It mixes video and text. Most importantly it's a finger in the face of people who say traditional advertising is dead.
Exclusively using traditional media is pretty much dead, but the core of advertising- the idea, is still alive and well. I cannot say good enough things about this article. It paints a picture of how we got our current examples of great advertising from the age of 'Mad Men.' Please do yourself a favor and read it.
It has been out for around a month now and one of the videos won't play if you're in the states but the ideas are gold.