Yes, in order to test one’s car for fun, one must always
have a scientist in the passenger’s seat there to peer pressure you into
reckless driving. You’ll be having fun, but the emotionless science nerd will
continually protest, no matter what you do: “You are not driving for sufficient
fun!” And because he’s a nerd, you’ll feel like your coolness is being
threatened if you can’t out-fun a science nerd, so you’ll drive faster and more
and more reckless until you finally lose control of your car and crash into
pedestrians! Oh, the humanity!
See what happens when you let a car company tell you how to
have fun? It always ends in tragedy! Oh, Dodge: why must you always force
everyone to drive so recklessly against their own better judgment through your
advertising? Are you frustrated that you had to be bailed out? Is that it? And
you’re taking it out on your customers, getting deadly revenge that makes it
look like it’s their own fault? Oh, for shame!
Or is it simply the case that in this politically-correct
and ultra-litigious society we’re currently living, fun has been bullied out of
existence to such an extent that we must be reminded by scientists how to
engage in fun activities? I don’t know: Maybe I’m blaming Dodge for something
that’s not even their fault, and that test driving cars for fun always ends in
tragedy because everyone has forgotten how to even have fun due to guilt and
being out of practice. And that’s why they require the science nerd in the lab
coat nowadays: because perhaps we really need to be instructed in how to engage
in fun now, and Dodge is shining a critical light upon this most severe of
societal problems: our inability to have fun (but doing it with suggestion so
nobody can tell what they’re up to).
Here’s the conniving (or conscientious) car commercial (I
guess it’s open for interpretation.):
