Marketing is far too important to be left only to the marketing department!. - industrial marketing

"Oh, let me guess," Tina says. "He's a marketer."
"Hi," I say.
…"I hope they pay you well for strangling the youth of this country with cultural conformity."

In industrial marketing settings, the relationship between buyer and seller is frequently long term, close and involving a complex pattern of interaction between and within each company. The marketers' and buyers' task in this case may have more to do with maintaining these relationships than with making a straightforward sale or purchase.

I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see "hits," and discourage exploration.