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Brad, We said: Harry: Are you regularly swindled by advertisers?
Haven’t you ever decided not to patronize someone who didn’t
deliver? Brad: 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). --------------------------------------- It’s all the same. You patronize or not
according to your likes or dislikes. All advertising does is tell what there is to patronize,
or not. I think that Lawry may be worried about it, but he shouldn’t be. I have often been glad to discover there is something
out there that I will find useful. Harry ********************************* 818 352-4141 ********************************* >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf Of Brad McCormick, Ed.D. >Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 6:12 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: 'Christoph Reuss'; [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Futurework] Advertising and more > > >> >> 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 > >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 >> >> ********************************* >> >> >> >> 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. 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