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Fan frenzy as 'Mad Men' nears end

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Lucky Strike no filter ... For when you're not planning to get old.

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that show is boring a hell, suprised it lasted as long as it did

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LOS ANGELES — Get ready for your last dose of sex, booze, lies and advertising.

I am quite capable of getting all these things myself without the assistance of Mad Men.

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The main reason why this show is popular in Asia is because it represents a time when the US was a model for the rest of the world....its sort of a swan's song to what they US could never become again. Its timing was perfect-- introduced in 2007 right before the big recession that many are starting to use as the starting point for the total collapse of the US as the dominant world power. It also features the birth of the advertising industry, a "creation" of Edward Bernays, which is largely based on psychology and propaganda-- i.e. basically mostly what is left of US business "expertise."

Ironically the show really is about belittling and degrading the historical roots of what led to the US as a dominant power-- and what ensured the US of being on the winning side of world wars. It was created by the same aging former hippy baby boomers a-holes that were kids in the show...and grew up to become the captains of the US train wreck of an economy and social system that it has become today. Of course, being smug, narcissistic, selfish and drugged up most of the time--- they dont have a problem with "bestowing" on younger generations a bankrupt economy, increasingly strange and sick "social norms", and the loss of nearly all hope of being able to correct the problems they worked on creating for more than three decades.

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