Media, Priests and Mad Men

I just watched the new cable tv show on AMC, called "Mad Men". Its set in an advertising agency in New York in the 1960s. Its a good show--really well-written and acted with a clear tone of authenticity, from the perfect wardrobe to the camera eyeing between nice long takes of interesting conversation, that like building blocks is coded into plots...the social customs really standout, like the cigarette smoking, the females in the workplace what the 90s begin to call sexual harrassment. Anyways, the episode today had one of the ad execs have a conversation with a hippie-beatnik type, and this hippie-beatnik accuses the ad exec of being basically a high priest (media is a vessle, an oracle) of the new capitalist religion of mass consumerism...somewhere I've read and copied down the phrase "it wasn't the oracle, it was the priest behind the oracle"---(that must be from a movie).