In other words, Joannah, advertising contains content you disapprove of. Now, seems to me we have a pretty good rule in this country about regulation of speech based on content, namely, we don't do it if the speech is not incitrement to immanent unlawful activity, obscene, or a solicitaion to a crime. You sound pretty dour and puritanical there, Seven Deadly Sins, and all that. Presumably you want only Healthy Messages broadcast about . . . jks
> > > Sometimes you shock me. There are many, many good > reasons to get rid of > advertising. Off the top of my head: > 1. Advertising suggests that we are missing > something, that we are > incomplete, and that we can only be completed > through consumption. > 2. Advertising intrudes upon the public space. > 3. Advertising (the sort that is beamed on the > telly, interrupting > something every ten minutes) is not only a violation > of the viewer's > integrity and the integrity of the show/movie/etc > being interrupted, but > it is an implicit attack on the very notion of > integrity. > 4. Advertising is the modern celebration of the > seven deadly sins. I > mean that quite literally: watch ANY advertisement > and ask yourself what > is the underlying theme here: lust? gluttony? sloth? > envy? wrath? greed? > pride? > > Joanna __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
