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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brad McCormick, Ed.D. Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 9:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Christoph Reuss'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Advertising and more 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 > > ********************************* > > Henry George School of Los Angeles > > Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 > > 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 > > >[email protected] > > >http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > -- 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. 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