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Brad and Chris, Why do you care about advertising? Are you regularly swindled by advertisers? Haven’t
you ever decided not to patronize someone who didn’t deliver? I find advertising useful. I’m surprised you don’t. Harry ********************************* 818 352-4141 ********************************* >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf Of Brad McCormick, Ed.D. >Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:13 PM >To: Christoph Reuss >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Futurework] Advertising and more > >Christoph Reuss wrote: >>> I'd push the argument even a bit further: the ubiquity of advertising >>> teaches by example that self-celebration, exaggeration, deceit, and >>> self-promotion are OK. Is it any surprise that ordinary people too often >>> reflect these values, and continue to do so if they come to prominence. >>> Professional athletes self-celebrate their smallest accomplishments on the >>> field, and presidents employ spin instead of policy. >>> >> >> This is the logical outcome as long as predators are in charge. >> Those who call the shots make the rules of the game. >> The propaganda has to be debunked, then the people will see that >> the emperor has no clothes. Naked emperors have no authority left. >> >[snip] > >I think we would need to anticipate a *transition period* during which >those persons -- almost all of us -- who were childreared into >the old regime would act dysfunctionally, including continuing to >childrear their children in the old ways. I like to think of >psychoanalysis as a *transitional* discipline: Needed to help >the crippled, in the old regime, to survive, and, in a new regime, >to help them cease to be self-destructive ("no pain, no gain", >"things shouldn't be too easy for people", "if you never experienced >bad things you couldn't appreciate the good things"...). > >It's not simple. --Unless one believes in the indestructibility of >the innate goodness of the proletariat (the post-industrial return of Martin >Guerre...), or some such.... > >\brad mccormick > >-- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > ><![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] >----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > >_______________________________________________ >Futurework mailing list >http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework |
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