Harry Pollard wrote:
Brad and Chris,
Why do you care about advertising?
From a Despair comix cover (ca. 1972):
Spouse #1: "Let's see if there's anything good on TV tonite."
Spouse #2: "Why bother?"
"In the end", perhaps nothing mattters, not even -- pace Nietzsche --
"nothing" itself. Certainly my opinion as a citizen of
a free society that loves freedom -- certainly my opinion
does not matter [although my Yale classmate George W Bush's
opinion *does* mattter, see, e.g., how he has changed
Iraq from what it would otherwise have become in the past
6 years -- yes, GWB's opinions do matter, so he does
indeed have reason to bother].
Are you regularly swindled by advertisers? Haven’t you ever decided
not to patronize someone who didn’t deliver?
Yes, but if I really value what they have to offer,
I go to them. (I know that's not the
way you meant it, but perhaps there's a point
to my wilful misinterpretation).
Ah, but you are going to say: Well, Brad, how
could you know they had anything you wanted unless
they advertised?
And there would be a point to that -- in moderation, e.g.,
simple B&W print ad in the NYT, or a simple ascii
email message.... But there is also "word of mouth" and
other non-advertising ways of finding out about something.
\brad mccormick
I find advertising useful. I’m surprised you don’t.
Harry
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>Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:13 PM
>To: Christoph Reuss
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>Subject: Re: [Futurework] Advertising and more
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>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)
>
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