I absolutely agree with you. People need to reform their paradigms about advertising. Whenever one is exposed to advertising for example, one should be cognizant of the fact that one is paying for that advertising. I know that whenever I sit down in front of the TV, I am inevitably going to spend money that I wouldn't have spent otherwise. Ads work on a sub-conscious level, and the people who believe they are immune are the most vulnerable.
i don't think so. i don't think fat people have time or energy to complain about drug addicts. not since it was brought to the forefront that over eating is an addiction, too.
what does this have to do with religion? did i miss something?
this chrysler fella they speak of coming back..well they need to take the same peyote and other drugs they were taking when they saw him rise from the dead after 3 days. unless they partake in those drugs, they aren't going to see him again.
After watching this, I'm not sure anymore that you and I simply agree on everything. Now I think you're somehow manipulating my opinions with these videos. Oh well, if so, I should watch some more videos now.
Here's a fine example of advertising: The Lincoln Journal Star in Lincoln Nebraska had an ad placed by the Catholic Diocese stating that stem cell research has only resulted in people growing cancerous tumors in their bodies! No kidding, this is no joke. And so Catholics and any other religitard who reads that believes it.
Catholics arent that stupid, do you think they follow like muslims do? no they are not brainless terorist bastard like the muslims they have a brain they can do research. They are ALLOWED to do research.
There wasn't any research done! It's their bullshit anti-choice agenda denying the FACT that stem cells from a placenta are advantageous to research. There's no difference between one group of religious stupidity or another. They all believe in a fairy tale they want to shove down every ones throat. And like all religious people, I bet you a million dollars you've never read the bible at all.
Then that proves how fucking stupid you really are if you read that piece of dog shit and still believe it. What a moron. The tooth fairy is hiding in your closet too.
It always amazes me that religious people are so fucking stupid. First of all, "no one" is two words, not one. Second, it's "you're lucky", not "your lucky". When you have 4th grade grammar figured out, get back to me. Until then, pay more attention in school, moron. And third, that sentence, even with corrected spelling and grammar, still makes NO sense whatsoever.
Obviously nobody actually cares what you are saying except stupid mother fucker like yourself. By the way, talking to me about education? Who couldn't make it to University and had to get a job as a miner? I'm only 15 and I could get a better job than your's already. I got A's in all my exams and I am already doing my HSC, so I'd shove that comment back up your asshole. I had to comment in a rush, I have a life unlike you and had to be somewhere. Don't place your religious hate on me smartass.
I also question whether consumption is always a BAD thing. ALL people have hobbies and forms of escapism. Some people conisider reading George Orwell novels enjoyable, while others watch Will and Grace and/or stay trendy.
Peoples' hobbies/interests always come from somewhere other than themselves, whether it is family, friends, their experiences, the personality traits they were born with, adveritising, etc. And ALL of these could be labeled as brainwashing, depending on your definition.
I don't know if you can fully blame the marketers making the advertisments. Or the choice of the individual consumer, for that matter. Because if corporations are catering to the desires and wants of the majority of people, than aren't THEY being controlled to some degree?
To some extent I think percievably high status, charismatic individuals, like celebrities are the people that tend to SET the trends that cause the consumption of products.
... will never carry out any of there campaign promises and history has shown and shown again that even though the politician lies all the time they continue to be elected into office. Its not the Corporations advertisements that are turning people in to sheeple, its that people in general lack the critical thinking skills needed to decide and determined what there best interests are.
Its not that these multi-million dollar companies have all the resources at there desposal that will give them the advantage over the consumer to persuade the consumer to buy their product, even if its not in the consumer's best interest, its that the consumer or voter is a weak minded person and they will continue to over indulge themselves to fatty fast food even though they should know that it is bad for there health or donate this money to a politician knowning that the politician....
"We're taught at an early age that everything that happens in our lives is our fault." ???
If this is true for you then you are truly lucky for having strong and wise parents. My experience is that most are taught from childhood that whatever happens is "someone elses fault".
We are ofcourse affected by outside forces. But two people can be subject to the excact same forces and yet turn out completely differently. The deciding factor is not the outside factor, but how we respond to those
Advertising should definitely be regulated more strictly. Unless you lock your children in a closet you can't shield them from its influence. I think it is safe to say that advertising is an additional parent that we all share. I do believe that our resistance to it varies from person to person though.
good topic! micheal tsarion(not sure if thats the correct spelling) talks about advertising and the media as well as what hollywood does to make sure there is a constant anti spiritual message in the symbolism surrounding the info we recieve by using or imposing spiritual symbolism with anti spiritual messages thus allowing us to better associate with the info and to build a tolerance for it.
This is a very serious issue. I think it would be very helpful for every person to read Huxley's Brave New World. Yes, something should be done... but, one must understand the origins of the problem. Monopolization, is a human created organized structure of power. Mass media and government work together to support and maintain their own structural power and control. It will take a mass movement to shift power centers but only if the mass shifts it away from both.
I agree. We need to act as people though. Not as a government. Government is force. And we will never win against money and the slick ways they have of getting around laws. We need to vote with our voice and dollar about what we want. In the end they are our bitch. We tell them what we want to some degree and that is our only hope if we do not want to see signs and magazines all over the place.
It's true, advertising shapes the people's perceptions of what is thought of as socially acceptable.
In the western world, being overweight means a person is treated in many ways as part of an inferior class although in other parts of the world, where money is not abundant, it's a sign of upper class and wealth.
Behaviours like smoking and drinking also have their social stigma attached all because of in your face government campaigns that have supposedly "taught" us that this is so
What, in your opinion, would most people like to be? Fat... or thin and at least moderately healthy? Being fat could also mean that someone cannot control themselves or their eating habbits. It's quick to jump to conlusions about things like that, when really it just keeps on going deeper and deeper.
I guess it's true in the Western world that obesity is a problem, which sometimes indicates unhealthy eating habits and perhaps unhappiness with themselves. But it is the Western culture that has tought them to adore junkfood and to dislike themselves.
thats a great topic. I think that yes, there is fersure some brainwashing that goes on in advertising. I think that its important to pay attention to what you're watching and think critically about it - then again im sure ive been brainwashed a bit too :)
Hey, love this I love this video! I work in television and it's amazing what passes for truth- especially on the news! In college, I had to take a class on false arguments and because of that I'm more able to see through the BS but even I fall for it myself. I half-jokingly tell people that 99% of the news is BS. There is no more "news." It's one sides propaganda vs. another. It's all about making people identify with a label and hope they don't have the time to dissect your argument.
people are always trying to reach an ideal state but the fact is the ideal state is never met.once you have that thing that you thought would bring you to the state of mind of being complete you see something else that could better your life and now you have a new ideal state.its peoples minds tricking themselves rather than marketers,we just point you in the general direction we want you to go
iv been studying buyer behaviour analysis for the last few years,basically what makes people buy something and how we,marketers,use that to our advantage.alot of its psychology.basic stuff like what the target markets main criteria they want in their purchases being magnefied in ads,categorisation,even if its relevance to the product is small.how if two packets of the same product are on a shelf,the fact that one has packaging in yellow and/or red will make that more popular.etc etc
Gotta keep up with the Jones's man! And society drives that message of more, more, more, more than my neighbor. Here's a question: Why is jewelry so valueable to people? It serves no purpose. Why do you have to have those new pair of Jordans? The fact that kids lose their life over sneakers...that's efft up! Why drive that $70,000 car when you can drive a $40,000 car and put the rest in the bank...because you want to show everybody you da man!
People allow themselves to be programmed and don't like taking personal responsibility. I agree that the media is a strong influence in today's society but, one always has a choice to say NO to any influence.
Now granted I have made impulsive perchases but I have spent time studying the techniques used by advertising so now I am more aware of how I am being manuplated.
Now I believe that everyone is responsible for their own existence and being manipulated does not absolve you of responsibilty
Actually the Major Media promote a thousand times over and a thousand different ways the notion of "personal responsibility." Thus the average person thinks he/she is self-made and completely immune from the tactics of the Major Media. Sounds to me like their stratagem has been effective against you. For an alternative perspective, you may want to watch a video I borrowed from rhetoricalmonkey. I changed the title to Forgiveness: Jesus vs Behavioral Science (watch?v=XlazIXwYy1Q). Naturalism org
yes, even myself, why would anybody pay almost $3 for 12oz. coffee? for as much "freedom" as u.s. citizens have, they don't take advantage of it. make your own decisions. tune out the media!
Yes, people do tend to justify their own actions and not understand others do the same. The person who is "boozing-it-up" is critical towards someone who is overeating. The person overeating is critical towards the one using recreational drugs. The person using recreational drugs is critical of the "boozer." The exercise addict is critical of the couch potato. Et cetera. Individuals who think they are immune to outside influences are the ones most easily affected by those forces.
So true. I also that this trend is a way for people to make themselves feel better about them selves. But saying hey I drink but I don't do hard drugs and look down on hard drug users. This in turn makes them feel better about what they are doing. When the truth is they are still wrong.
The father of modern behaviorism in the US was John B. Watson. Watson left academia and got a job in a modest position with an advertising agency. In less than two years he was a vice-president of the firm. Understanding the mechanisms by which humans are manipulated pays off. And the Public Relations and Advertising Industries have learned to use science and the findings of science when engaged in ad/public relations campaigns.
We live in such an addictive society. Denial is so widespread as to be the norm.
I'd love to be able to change the system, I know it needs to change. But I also know that it is impossible, and the sad irony is I also know that it is my own fears feeding the addictive quality of 'a need to control' that makes me want to alter the system.
I guess in the end personal responsibility means viewing the many obstacles in the world around me not as obstacles, but as opportunities for growth.
But I believe that Obama has taken it to the extreme. This is where his superior campaign funds come into play. As the say, "money talks" and he who has it will almost always be the winner!
I like your posts and I agree with a lot what you say. But as someone that does not support Obama, I have to say that Obam has learned about the power of the media by hiring bloggers that pose as people that they are not, therefore making readers think that their views are not comprehensive enough and that they have been missing some point that these "other Americans" clearly see. It is an attempt to sway opinion and get votes for Obama. I realize that many candidates have done this..Cont.
I'm offended by so many types of in-your-face advertising, I would go out of my way NOT to buy the product or patronize the business that intrudes on my life. My kids clamor for things they see on TV even if they don't know what it is! My son particularly wants junky cereals he sees during kids' shows. They are shameless in peddling junk to children. It's ironic that "Journey to the Center of the Earth" keeps popping up in this video . . . I will definitely not be seeing it. ;-)
It IS our fault. Your five year old kid can't buy mcdonalds for himself for every meal, he needs his parent to get it for him. So be a responsible parent and whats best for your kid, whether its eating mcdonalds every once in a while or never, its up to you. This applies to everything. This concept is not new, this is the same mentality that people lived by 40 years ago, but has since disappeared into rampant consumerism. Its an attitude shift, now we blame society instead of ourselves.
Stop going on about rights of businesses. It is their right, if you choose to engage in their medium, whatever that may be, to show you whatever they want if it helps buy their product or whatever their purpose may be. Sick of commercials? Throw your tv out. Sick of in-store ad campaigns? Grow your own food, or do what I do: save your money, and DONT PAY ATTENTION TO THEM. There is no such thing as predatory advertising. People don't have to be a bunch of mentally disabled morons.
Continued from earlier...but it all comes down to self-control. I'll be the first to condemn someone whose vices are wrecking their life and their loved ones lives, even while I chug a soda and buy fast food, because it's all about self control. I don't buy trendy clothing, or any other fad stuff, and a lot of other people don't either. You can't blame the ad companies for YOUR VICES, because it is your CHOICE. High gas prices are an example of something that isn't your choice, for example.
Proteanview, I see you all over youtube and I have a great deal of respect for you and your viewpoints. However, I think you are confusing two separate issues. Being a victim of carefully crafted advertising and being a person who simply loves mcdonalds cheeseburgers, for instance, are two totally separate things. Another thing, I drink Mountain Dew because I enjoy soda, and I prefer mountain dew over others; not because it is healthier or pepsi is a better marketer, just personal preference.
You are so on point with this vlog! And I love the annotations. You give us so much to think about in a medium filled with mindless foolishness. Thank you proteanview.
i seen an ad for KFC, i think we're feeling the cruel treatment of the chickens before they get slaughtered for packaging... anyway.. in the ad, we see this very fit looking man *TRYING to enjoy this piece of chicken... the selling of souls is endless. the only immortal thing in this world is money- if we be really honest
I try my best to avoid advertising but it is very difficult, tighter controls may help a little but i think consumers really need to sit and read about all the fads their buying into the biggest issues are a lack of knowledge and learning to say no(especially to kids). So basically i believe we are at least 95 percent responsible for our conditioning.
The most intelligent, most highly paid people, and most ruthless people in the entire world are getting paid huge amounts of cash to use the latest in psychological advertising techniques against not only you, but your kids.
These child predators can never be escaped, and your point that you're nuts to think that advertising is just on TV is 100% absolutely correct.
They're ruthless because it works nowadays, due to this current "blame society" attitude. We engage in ridiculous consumerism all day and then blame society for our irresponsible behavior. Be a responsible person for yourself and your children, moron. Vulnerable kids don't have money or power unless you give it to them. Don't use the term "child predator"; I'm sure you'll feel like an ass for drawing that parallel if a child you care about does get molested.
I try to make my decisions upon factual information and I don't watch a lot of television anymore. But we are their victims I don't think we escape totally but for those who choose to pick up a good book or do some research of their I think they are better equipped to sort through the bull that is being told to us through the mass media we are responsible for the choices we make regardless if they are made from being aware or not of the potential danger of losing the ability to think objectively
The flaw is found in human for having a "plastic brain" so malleable you can do what you want with it and effective if you got them at younger age...
Our actually life-style system, mistakenly establish by few (psychopath individual purposely recruited by HR) require exploiting such "plastic mind" and the Corporate Social Responsibility are too afraid to discuss this facts openly which are responsible for the consumerism that is polluting the environment to climate change.
It's pretty easy to avoid marketing, no TV or radio. In its other forms it's pretty easy to ignore. Works for me. I have no idea what is going on with you brainwashed mutants and don't want any. If you don't have a cell-phone the US is an alien culture. And I will not be assimilated!
Yes, I agree with you. Its very enlightening and frightening when you finally SEE all the strings that have been pulling you. Corporations, religion, government.
people, the marketers see us as one thing only and that is sources of potential revenue; to them, we become consumers the moment we begin to see. this is not about freedom, this is about learning the difference between real human needs and neurotic consumer demands. every thing that you "have to have" owns you!
well said. we are drowning in a sea of advertisements everywhere we go; the best thing to do is turn off the tv; it hypnotizes you and makes you more open to ads and to programming. They make you want what you don't need, regardless of wether you can afford it or not. They are always there to remind you that there is somplace else you'd rather be. They teach you to emulate the wealthy.
I agree with what you're saying in this video. Marketing companies do a lot of research to find out how we think and what we respond to. Without consciously thinking, we have formed an oppinion and a decision as to whether or not we will buy something. Now they are showing the same commercial several times during a tv show, continuing to flash it into our memories.
I'm not sure how large a role advertising has had in crafting the hyperconsumerism culture you see in affluent societies, but we have found ourselves in some version of Aldus Huxley's Brave New World. It isn't so hard to think of people who spend themselves to the brink of financial ruin so that they will appear to be prosperous, "appear" being the functional word.
I agree that we need to take more responsibility but in general we'll need the proper education to know that.
bringideason: Perhaps we should allow cigarette companies to advertise in schools? Why not allow minors to smoke? I mean, we give Phillip Morris the right to market and sell its poisons to adults. I'm all for legalizing drugs - truly. In the vain of freedoms, why not allow corporations to prey on children? After all, it's their choice. No one will make them smoke cigarettes. I'm w/you. Let's put Joe Camel ads on vending machines. Businesses should enjoy that freedom.
I'm all for that. Legalize Marijuana and let me die slowly into the time that doesn't exist. By the way, it isn't "society" that needs more control bringideason, it's people. Every human being needs more control, that way we won't need a corrupt "society" or sad form of government. Explain to me why we have a third world? Humanity needs to wake the fuck up and save ourselves from extinction. I'd love to help the third world, unfortunately I need the 5 billion dollars spent on advertising.
Good questions, and I, without thinking about it for more than a few seconds, would say leave it to each school and it's local authorities to decide about allowing advertising. I would personally not want it in schools, but I wouldn't force every school to do as I do.
Advertising is like a form of economic drug addiction. The fact is, we don't need most things we buy, but advertising makes them seem desirable so we do. This artificially accelerates the economy, like an upper, driving us to over-use resources, but keeping people in jobs overproducing these often redundant products. Take shampoo; soap will do the same job, but we spend billions on shampoo & conditioner with cranberry extract etc. We do this to waste money and keep other people rich.
When I see anyone driving a new vehicle, getting a mortgage, putting on makeup, or even wearing a fashionable shirt such as yours, those kind of things say to me, "look at me, I've been successfully marketed to!"
Advertisements do have an effect on our perception of products/services; that's what they are banking on when they start production.
However, we are responsible for our thoughts about a product regardless of how much it's rotated. If we are unfamiliar with it then the decision about purchasing should not be left to marketers but instead researched through unbiased sources so that you may form your own opinion without intereference.
not everyone can be president apart from the stupidity of the idea we are all different and not all able in all ways the thing which makes us the same is that we are all completely different.
our brains don't move as fast as your words. put some neighborkids in back of the camera and talk to them...pretend you already know them if you don't. pay them to listen. i think you could be one of the great speakers of our time, you just gotta slow down and create more style and emphasis on certain points...in other words..take a breath! lol.
Right! I might start by wondering how on earth you come to realize all these important subject that have, more or less, sunk into the background of our lives. I love your out-of-the-box thinking!
I agree with your message in the video though, and one might wonder if we need regulations that force all the different brands on the market to be tested and compared, and the best ones to be lifted out for what they are - a way to stop the curse of agressive rhetorical advertisement.
Yo Protean! Good video man going on my favorites, if anyone views my favorites this video definitely needs to be there to educate just a little more, it never hurts. Thanks for the very mature and intelligent post.
furthermore, 'they' first stripped ppl of any self worth by manipulating them to beleive that one is worthless unless one has plenty of material possession - this is continuing today wher everyone looks externally for happiness/fulfilment. Thus they play on the worthlessness THEY created by selling u somthing to make u feel betta. Crazzzzy but it works ...its called materialism.
Plus, advertisiers r very cluey -they dont just sell a product they r a selling a lifestyle to u. exampl coke - full of young good looking ppl having fun.. they r selling u an idea that u too will b popular, young and beautiful if u drink coke - even if it is that black crap full of chemicals.
they play on ppl's weaknessess/self esteem - same game play for any product b it cars or homes or clothes. thanx i hav had my rant...Ohmmmmmmm
- decades ago hired a psychologist to research wat wuld appeal to ppl. Even now supermarket shelves will hav certain products at eye level only and it costs those companies more to have those eye shelving. even the music is selected based on increased spending... nothing is random. even those little gums/sweets at the cashier -called impulse buying yep they know exactly how we operate. They dont call us sheeple for nothing.
Have you lost your damn mind? Why in the world would you ever think more government is the answer to anything? This video about made my head explode. ;)
Don't forget the "Free" media. A lot of messages are sent subliminally through everyday things that most people would think is untouched like television, cinema, and music. Not to mention through the way we communicate, for instance the word homophobe, according to popular spell check engines, like those on YouTube, is not a word, however a word like fag, and homo-although which have different meanings or can be used in a different context- are words. Just something to think about.
"take personal resposibility to make there will power everything" Ya I get where your coming from. This isn't necessarily linked to advertising. But a lot of college level people my age mid 20s. They always gotta prove a point it seems like. Or will judge really quick sometimes like NERDS! you know? without understanding the individual. I do think my generation is more AD aware. We grew up with ad busters. And internet has helped us dodge a lot of those ads so to speak. Like this channel.
Every one has been tooled in one form or another. The ones who deny it and cut there own path, buy into the products and materials that define them. There is a market for everything. We as a people ar definatly too consumerlicious! LOL!
Blame the victim, so you won't blame the perpetrator! There is external influence, and we're not supposed to organize against it.
There should be more controls; even adults need some space but also for children-I as a parent successfully choose to raise my child without TV, but in the mid-90's screens started showing up in the cabs and grocery stores. If we can ban public smoking, we should control advertising, too.
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givebirth: Yeah. We're taught at an early age that everything that happens in our lives is our fault. This is a virtual 'Get Out of Jail Free' card for governmental and corporate criminals. We aren't weak because we're influenced by billions of dollars, we're human. The very folks who suffer from this are the very ones defending the rights of the perpetrators and *that* is not only weak but a sad and defeatist attitude cloaked in pseudo confidence. (Sorry. I got carried away)
Have you noticed, at the very start of understanding how manufacturers and advertisers begin 'conditioning' children, producing boys toys in primary colours & girls toys in pastel colours..And we've all heard the rhyme telling us that little boys are made of slugs & snails & puppy dogs tails, and little girls are made of sugar & spice & all things nice. Modern teaching encourages critical thinking. Good parenting initiates it.
Yeah! Ayn Rand blows, I actually liked the Fountainhead, then read Atlas Shrugged made me puke shit. Great job once again! HD Thereous brain would explode if he saw the modern world
My view is that people need to understand themselves first in order to limit outside influence of others. If you understand your ability and your tendency then you should have no problem with advertisements or propaganda. The best way to understand oneself is to try different things, interact with different people and cultures as much as possible, seek knowledge and of course watch less TV.
Most people are dumb, they need advertising to tell them what to do, otherwise they'll just sit there being dumb. That's what the whole republican and democrat farce is all about, get people polarized into a couple groups, then have them fight it out, meanwhile they never realize the state has crushed their freedom.
violet: Since it's completely our choice and not the advertising, why can't we advertise cigarettes to children? It's choice. Phillip Morris should at least be able to place cigarette ads at schools for the "teacher's sake". If advertising should have no responsibility, perhaps they should be allowed to market anything to every one of any age. In the end, it all supposedly comes down to choice, right?
it is completely our choice as to how we evaluate the msgs that we are being bombarded with and which of the msgs we choose to believe or discard. Again, I don't think we can escape being influenced by advertising b/c we are always being advertised too whether it is done by a recongnized brand or not. Escaping advertisment is like trying to escape peer pressure. you can't. you can say no to one pressure and yes to another. same with a brand or idea. pro Iguess it depends on how you define choice
Advertising in and of itself is not bad. Advertising makes the product or idea that is being promoted "normal" or "familiar." The issue is not that advertising companies play a role in shaping the way ppl think; It's more complex than that. guardians and teachers need to do a better job @ teaching children how to be critical thinkers. We r all socialized and interdependent upon the ideas and msgs of society, but we can play an active role in the
I don't agree with making new laws. Since we have enough ridiculous laws on the books right now. However, were the people to make a law making it illegal for advertising agency's to use psychology in advertising, then they would have a lot less influence in their ads. They would argue it infringes on their right to free speech. However it is also illegal to scream "fire" in a crowded theater if is not true. This is what the ad agency's are doing, there is no "fire", but they are screaming it.
THE1CALLED: I agree on both counts. I'm not for more laws, but when businesses may advertise cigarettes (poisons) to us and the FDA approves it, some action must be taken to look out for our welfare.
with minimal research you can find out how TV especially is used to sway our thought processes. the majority of people don't have an understanding of how their brain processes information so they don't see the tactics used in advertising as being all that persuasive, they just figure it's a great product or service.
go 6 months without watching any tv and when you watch it again you'll see just how incredibly awkward it really is. that's my 10 cents (gotta combat 'inflation'...).
I find the notion that we are mindless zombies that can be convinced to buy anything by marketers as offensive. I make a decision on what to buy and its all my responsibility. I believe in knowing the facts about a product and making an educated decision.
There are plenty of idiots that buy stuff that they shouldnt. However, the blame isnt on the marketers it is on the buyers who make poor decisions (unless there is fraud involved).
An ad-chief once revealed, that if you take away advertizing from the market, the whole economy will collaps, due to lack of consumption.
It works so well, cause the majority is followers, only few are independent thinkers and half of them is addicted to money (the BEST drug for the brain, due to the triggered dopamine system) and/or suffer from antisocial personality disorder, destroying the reciprocal altruism, every community is based upon.
Thank you for posting this. I do believe it is a personal responsibility to be a "wise consumer". I do not think advertising should be more regulated in mass media even if it is unfair. People have to make money to provide for their people. We have all been been hurt by ads in some way, but we must learn to understand them and pick and choose what we want from them. Life is about discovery.
this assumes that their advertising works the way "they" plan it to. I think a wide variety of things effect how/what we think, and the fact that advertisments is among them is not necessarily a bad thing.
i totally agree....no matter what you cannot escape the power of the advertising department when they spend millions of dollars for your attention + money. doesnt have to be anything important either...just one nifty coca-cola commercial can trigger SOMEONE on the planet to go out there and buy a coka-cola.
Subversive advertising or propaganda has been used for decades, to mould public opinion. The old addage of if you tell people the same message over and over, eventually they will buy into whatever you wish them to think stil applies. Its just that, they now use all forms of media, intenet, telesales, flyers etc, its an endless bombardment of misinformation, and we wonder why we buy stuff when clearly we don't need to. Its all enforced sales.
Who opts out of a cell phone? Victims of change. When you work longer for less this is the answer. The fad is you are class categorized. Capitalism has many faces. The most obvious is that manufacturing is the mainstay of the workers and research and development is the mainstay of management. The face you hardly see is the owner or co- owners. Individuals that have created the corporation, that decide the fate of everyone else. Ultimately, technology is the market.
by experience.xd. unable to fell textures, as well as odor textures,being unable to talk, stop earing voices and noises, hving more and more difficulty to see or and weak noise comming out of nowhere graduadly going up until it freaks you out at that point of waking up wickedly fast. you have 5 senses.notice how they are involved in waking you up. when ur dreaming and having a good dream strat felling one of those.its like ah crap, back to real world.lol
cuase your senses record info and save it on your brain."is it true" if you become concious that you dream and you are actually detecting that your going to wake up soon. and decide to bring something to real world."it wont work lol" but if you whant the thing that bad. a t2 can materialize the obeject he/she whant to pass to the real world. psychic is strong. and real,ok we all hear stories here and there. but all this is real. try it yourself.
nanotechnologies implant can speed up learning process of all that in our brain by up too 100 times faster.
try being councious as you sleep. i mean being aware that your are dreaming,or having a nightmare. the ppl you see in your dreams actually see you as well on their side. dreams are using more then 75% of your brain.
you use more your brain in a dream then on the "real world" well if you whant to base your senses as the only barier that make a difference between real and not real.
as for other levels. t4 are able to physycaly force you brain signal to create a felling. like being poked on the shoulder. manipulating target muscles and nerves. but very lightly. and also they can block you very well to read their minds. t3 get more serious. then can literally push you and punch from afar. t2 again more powerful. they can distract sensors, jam signals, create physycal bariers of psychic energy.
everone can be powerful t1'S if they pratice themself. everyone starts out as a t6. just aware and concious about you brain psychic powers.just unable to make anything happen.
t5 can alter others ppl thinking,they can read minds but not perfectly."how this works"
look at someone you wich to talk too. then ask the person a question in your head. wait a few seconds.....frigin 500 words limits. next post
I think red state/blue state is a con to get people to accept a two party system. Party means nothing to me, its about the stance a politician takes. I admire Republican Ron Paul, but also have respect for Democrat Mike Gravel and Democrat Dennis Cucinich. Sexy women in advertising doesn't affect my choice of beer, taste and cost does. Celebs don't persuade me either. I consider myself an independant thinker, but good question though. I wonder just how much advertising does affect my decisions.
buddy: Yeah, the red/blue state stuff seems to be about getting us polarized into two fighting camps so we're busy debating each other while the leaders of both camps sell us down the river. I don't know of anyone who thinks they are affected by advertising.
This is generally why I don't have firefox on my cpu, thats a really scary program. Highlights your key words and links them to things for you to buy. Look at myspace when you write stuff in your subscription you'll see Advertisments of what key words you wrote.
I object to the "victims" term. No matter how much they spend there's still stuff they want me to buy that I'm not. We're more victimized by government who prey upon anyone with a job. From birth our parents signed us into their system before we knew what was happening. That is not true with those "evil corporations", we can opt out if we want. Try opting out of taxes, laws and regulations. Fat chance! Death or prison is our only choice; as long as we all put up with the tyranny, that is.
but its all designed to make your life better , advertising a wonderful thing that
truthfully mainstay of the civilized world , its almost as accretion as American evangelist take on the bible , what would those backward Iranians know about the jew , o yeah Zoroastrians the jews master,
corporate sponsorship of public space (which all space really is) allows them to advertise as they please. We all know that corporations only HAVE to make money, they don't owe us anything. It's funny that the money they generate has so much more power than the people they're supposed to cater to. Turns out, WE serve THEM.
You make some good points, but there is a whole other side to the argument that you didn't address. How much influence does the general population have over advertisement? A lot. Almost all of it because they are the masses to whom a company is selling to. Advertising is being shaped by public opinion just as much, if not more than, public opinion is shaped by advertising.
Your argument is incomplete. You can't assert that advertising is designed to take advantage of people and does, and justify the assertion with "because people try to use it that way." I may TRY to move the Earth out of orbit, but it doesn't move. I disagree we need control of marketing(you couldn't find a place to draw the line), but agree it's bad thing in the company of stupidity; however, before you start legislating, prove advertising works in unethical ways. Anything can appear/FEEL evil.
Hymer: So, why bother preventing companies from marketing cigarettes to children? It's their choice, after all. No one is making them. Why can't we advertise cocaine? After all, it's personal choice; no one makes us? If we spent more time looking out for the welfare of individuals as we do looking out for the rights of companies, perhaps Manhattan wouldn't have had to ban trans fats.
It's illegal for children to smoke cigarettes; I'm sure you're aware. I'm sure you're aware cocaine is illegal too. I have no problems with cocaine ads though, and you know children are an exception; they are essentially retarded adults without the ability to reason. And still, they should have parents to reason for them. You aren't arguing for pre-existing restrictions -- you are arguing for more than exists at current. Where and why do people need you to protect them?
Hymer: If everything is simply a result of personal choice and not advertising, there's no reason cigarettes should be illegal for children. That we allow a known killer to be marketed even to adults is another cause to redefine what's acceptable as advertising.
When large corporations are deliberately brainstorming to induce desires through clever marketing campaigns, the ones targeted and affected are like children being taken advantage of by adults. Many advertisers use their target market, the peoples ignorance to their advantage. In a sense I am responsible for being aware and self-realized, and as a benefit, I am more immune to trickery. But when thousands are thinking against me, I dont stand a chance. Its almost like bullying.
The billions and billions spent on advertising could be put to better use. We've been babied wayyyy to long. When I was young, no money left over to spend on extras. Now, if you don't have money, put it on plastic (suffer the consequences later). Later??? Methinks the chickens have come in to roost!
Man I'm so glad I subscribed to you. Would love to sit down and have a long talk with you. I always respect your views no matter if I agree or disagree.
Ive always been the most free thinking person that there is, Ive never been fooled. I constantly see all of you being duped by these corporations, all the while I sit back in my comfortable Lazy Boy™ armchair, tear into a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos®, open up a delicious can of ice cold Pepsi™ (which by the way not only tastes great but is also good for you) and laugh at all of you fools who allow yourselves to play there game.
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Pro-Tean-Shake, We have Millions of Americans who watch Fox News and believe Barack Obama is a muslim sleeper cell. There are millions of Americans who can't even tell you where Kabul is on a map! We have millions of people in this country who know more about Britney Spear's lipstick brand then they do about world history. What makes you think American society will change now with marketing these campeigns? We will always be dumb and stupid and sucked in by the mass media! It's the American way!
great video. it can be argued, philosophically (i've seen academic papers and NY Times articles) that free will is an illusion. assuming it is real, of course society creates the boundaries on what choices we have. there is no doubt that the constant imprinting of advertising data upon the human mind has a profound affect on our lives. we not only come to synthesize a brandname into our consciousness, but also an entire lifestyle and cultural value system.
I think most people are just mindless sheep. Sounds cruel and tired already, but that's what I believe. To be honest, I'm not affected by advertising; I hardly ever watch TV and I never click on internet ads, in fact I just glaze over them. But obviously corporations wouldn't be speding billions in advertising if it weren't a good investment. I don't know or care about the policy side of things, I just find it pitiful that billions are spent on advertising, and that is works.
Very profound! Geez! You say the most interesting things. I was just having this conversation about propaganda and its affects. The mind is a terrible thing to waste...the advertisers know this. That's why they go straight to our "domes" (dome=head/brain).
I absolutely agree with you. People need to reform their paradigms about advertising. Whenever one is exposed to advertising for example, one should be cognizant of the fact that one is paying for that advertising. I know that whenever I sit down in front of the TV, I am inevitably going to spend money that I wouldn't have spent otherwise. Ads work on a sub-conscious level, and the people who believe they are immune are the most vulnerable.
seflersinsburg10 2 years ago
If You're Looking For the Guilty, You Need Only Look Into a Mirror
- V
anonazero 2 years ago
i don't think so. i don't think fat people have time or energy to complain about drug addicts. not since it was brought to the forefront that over eating is an addiction, too.
what does this have to do with religion? did i miss something?
this chrysler fella they speak of coming back..well they need to take the same peyote and other drugs they were taking when they saw him rise from the dead after 3 days. unless they partake in those drugs, they aren't going to see him again.
NotTooObvious 2 years ago
After watching this, I'm not sure anymore that you and I simply agree on everything. Now I think you're somehow manipulating my opinions with these videos. Oh well, if so, I should watch some more videos now.
drutter 2 years ago
Here's a fine example of advertising: The Lincoln Journal Star in Lincoln Nebraska had an ad placed by the Catholic Diocese stating that stem cell research has only resulted in people growing cancerous tumors in their bodies! No kidding, this is no joke. And so Catholics and any other religitard who reads that believes it.
NoFreeSpeechonYT 3 years ago
Catholics arent that stupid, do you think they follow like muslims do? no they are not brainless terorist bastard like the muslims they have a brain they can do research. They are ALLOWED to do research.
nerdboyxx 2 years ago
There wasn't any research done! It's their bullshit anti-choice agenda denying the FACT that stem cells from a placenta are advantageous to research. There's no difference between one group of religious stupidity or another. They all believe in a fairy tale they want to shove down every ones throat. And like all religious people, I bet you a million dollars you've never read the bible at all.
NoFreeSpeechonYT 2 years ago
I have read it back to front, you owe me a million dollars dumbass.
nerdboyxx 2 years ago
Then that proves how fucking stupid you really are if you read that piece of dog shit and still believe it. What a moron. The tooth fairy is hiding in your closet too.
NoFreeSpeechonYT 2 years ago
you have your opinions then, when you die youll feel the pain but your lucky noone strikes you down now.
nerdboyxx 2 years ago
It always amazes me that religious people are so fucking stupid. First of all, "no one" is two words, not one. Second, it's "you're lucky", not "your lucky". When you have 4th grade grammar figured out, get back to me. Until then, pay more attention in school, moron. And third, that sentence, even with corrected spelling and grammar, still makes NO sense whatsoever.
NoFreeSpeechonYT 2 years ago
Obviously nobody actually cares what you are saying except stupid mother fucker like yourself. By the way, talking to me about education? Who couldn't make it to University and had to get a job as a miner? I'm only 15 and I could get a better job than your's already. I got A's in all my exams and I am already doing my HSC, so I'd shove that comment back up your asshole. I had to comment in a rush, I have a life unlike you and had to be somewhere. Don't place your religious hate on me smartass.
nerdboyxx 2 years ago
I also question whether consumption is always a BAD thing. ALL people have hobbies and forms of escapism. Some people conisider reading George Orwell novels enjoyable, while others watch Will and Grace and/or stay trendy.
Peoples' hobbies/interests always come from somewhere other than themselves, whether it is family, friends, their experiences, the personality traits they were born with, adveritising, etc. And ALL of these could be labeled as brainwashing, depending on your definition.
MindlessGlitch 3 years ago
I don't know if you can fully blame the marketers making the advertisments. Or the choice of the individual consumer, for that matter. Because if corporations are catering to the desires and wants of the majority of people, than aren't THEY being controlled to some degree?
To some extent I think percievably high status, charismatic individuals, like celebrities are the people that tend to SET the trends that cause the consumption of products.
MindlessGlitch 3 years ago
... will never carry out any of there campaign promises and history has shown and shown again that even though the politician lies all the time they continue to be elected into office. Its not the Corporations advertisements that are turning people in to sheeple, its that people in general lack the critical thinking skills needed to decide and determined what there best interests are.
suboreo 3 years ago
Its not that these multi-million dollar companies have all the resources at there desposal that will give them the advantage over the consumer to persuade the consumer to buy their product, even if its not in the consumer's best interest, its that the consumer or voter is a weak minded person and they will continue to over indulge themselves to fatty fast food even though they should know that it is bad for there health or donate this money to a politician knowning that the politician....
suboreo 3 years ago
I think it's a little funny he has an advertisement to the right of his video. :D But I agree, it should be more regulated
orangelixir 3 years ago
"We're taught at an early age that everything that happens in our lives is our fault." ???
If this is true for you then you are truly lucky for having strong and wise parents. My experience is that most are taught from childhood that whatever happens is "someone elses fault".
We are ofcourse affected by outside forces. But two people can be subject to the excact same forces and yet turn out completely differently. The deciding factor is not the outside factor, but how we respond to those
Sondre7 3 years ago
Advertising should definitely be regulated more strictly. Unless you lock your children in a closet you can't shield them from its influence. I think it is safe to say that advertising is an additional parent that we all share. I do believe that our resistance to it varies from person to person though.
mma171 3 years ago
good topic! micheal tsarion(not sure if thats the correct spelling) talks about advertising and the media as well as what hollywood does to make sure there is a constant anti spiritual message in the symbolism surrounding the info we recieve by using or imposing spiritual symbolism with anti spiritual messages thus allowing us to better associate with the info and to build a tolerance for it.
e5d4c3 3 years ago
This is a very serious issue. I think it would be very helpful for every person to read Huxley's Brave New World. Yes, something should be done... but, one must understand the origins of the problem. Monopolization, is a human created organized structure of power. Mass media and government work together to support and maintain their own structural power and control. It will take a mass movement to shift power centers but only if the mass shifts it away from both.
BeanGene 3 years ago
I agree. We need to act as people though. Not as a government. Government is force. And we will never win against money and the slick ways they have of getting around laws. We need to vote with our voice and dollar about what we want. In the end they are our bitch. We tell them what we want to some degree and that is our only hope if we do not want to see signs and magazines all over the place.
UcanbeGOD 3 years ago
their was a time where being fat was a sign of wealth. not any more now its a sign of lazyness and weakness.
kendre3 3 years ago
It's true, advertising shapes the people's perceptions of what is thought of as socially acceptable.
In the western world, being overweight means a person is treated in many ways as part of an inferior class although in other parts of the world, where money is not abundant, it's a sign of upper class and wealth.
Behaviours like smoking and drinking also have their social stigma attached all because of in your face government campaigns that have supposedly "taught" us that this is so
wherewasyou 3 years ago
What, in your opinion, would most people like to be? Fat... or thin and at least moderately healthy? Being fat could also mean that someone cannot control themselves or their eating habbits. It's quick to jump to conlusions about things like that, when really it just keeps on going deeper and deeper.
exDeathex 3 years ago
I guess it's true in the Western world that obesity is a problem, which sometimes indicates unhealthy eating habits and perhaps unhappiness with themselves. But it is the Western culture that has tought them to adore junkfood and to dislike themselves.
wherewasyou 3 years ago
Very true :) I hate this Western World! OH PLEASE rain for 40 days and 40 nights to wash the scum off of this planet! Hahaha
exDeathex 3 years ago
this is a very interesting topic, I work in adverting lol
klept0brainac 3 years ago
thats a great topic. I think that yes, there is fersure some brainwashing that goes on in advertising. I think that its important to pay attention to what you're watching and think critically about it - then again im sure ive been brainwashed a bit too :)
billygoat4306 3 years ago
Hey, love this I love this video! I work in television and it's amazing what passes for truth- especially on the news! In college, I had to take a class on false arguments and because of that I'm more able to see through the BS but even I fall for it myself. I half-jokingly tell people that 99% of the news is BS. There is no more "news." It's one sides propaganda vs. another. It's all about making people identify with a label and hope they don't have the time to dissect your argument.
quinn2469 3 years ago 3
i think that what u said is right
mnoormsh 3 years ago
this is basically the culture of affluenza...
the U.S. sucks man
metamorphises 3 years ago 3
Fuck You
wallstreetyoung 3 years ago
people are always trying to reach an ideal state but the fact is the ideal state is never met.once you have that thing that you thought would bring you to the state of mind of being complete you see something else that could better your life and now you have a new ideal state.its peoples minds tricking themselves rather than marketers,we just point you in the general direction we want you to go
jmcgrth 3 years ago
iv been studying buyer behaviour analysis for the last few years,basically what makes people buy something and how we,marketers,use that to our advantage.alot of its psychology.basic stuff like what the target markets main criteria they want in their purchases being magnefied in ads,categorisation,even if its relevance to the product is small.how if two packets of the same product are on a shelf,the fact that one has packaging in yellow and/or red will make that more popular.etc etc
jmcgrth 3 years ago
Gotta keep up with the Jones's man! And society drives that message of more, more, more, more than my neighbor. Here's a question: Why is jewelry so valueable to people? It serves no purpose. Why do you have to have those new pair of Jordans? The fact that kids lose their life over sneakers...that's efft up! Why drive that $70,000 car when you can drive a $40,000 car and put the rest in the bank...because you want to show everybody you da man!
Powderfinger07 3 years ago
watch?v=9Px3nBTLZCQ
watch from 2 minutes to 4.
mohedd 3 years ago
People allow themselves to be programmed and don't like taking personal responsibility. I agree that the media is a strong influence in today's society but, one always has a choice to say NO to any influence.
Now granted I have made impulsive perchases but I have spent time studying the techniques used by advertising so now I am more aware of how I am being manuplated.
Now I believe that everyone is responsible for their own existence and being manipulated does not absolve you of responsibilty
seth1hades 3 years ago
Actually the Major Media promote a thousand times over and a thousand different ways the notion of "personal responsibility." Thus the average person thinks he/she is self-made and completely immune from the tactics of the Major Media. Sounds to me like their stratagem has been effective against you. For an alternative perspective, you may want to watch a video I borrowed from rhetoricalmonkey. I changed the title to Forgiveness: Jesus vs Behavioral Science (watch?v=XlazIXwYy1Q). Naturalism org
unseenstrings 3 years ago
So true. People are turning into programed robots. We have lost how to think for ourselves in many ways.
TheLadyTS 3 years ago
As an advertizer it's nice to know that my craft works so well on others.
Z8nate 3 years ago
yes, even myself, why would anybody pay almost $3 for 12oz. coffee? for as much "freedom" as u.s. citizens have, they don't take advantage of it. make your own decisions. tune out the media!
queenwinterkat 3 years ago
Good job...aren't we strange animals? Marketing goes into every aspect of life....I'm surprised and pleased you didn't mention politics!
Pkr 3 years ago
Yes, people do tend to justify their own actions and not understand others do the same. The person who is "boozing-it-up" is critical towards someone who is overeating. The person overeating is critical towards the one using recreational drugs. The person using recreational drugs is critical of the "boozer." The exercise addict is critical of the couch potato. Et cetera. Individuals who think they are immune to outside influences are the ones most easily affected by those forces.
Naturalism Org
unseenstrings 3 years ago 3
So true. I also that this trend is a way for people to make themselves feel better about them selves. But saying hey I drink but I don't do hard drugs and look down on hard drug users. This in turn makes them feel better about what they are doing. When the truth is they are still wrong.
Nuru305 3 years ago
The father of modern behaviorism in the US was John B. Watson. Watson left academia and got a job in a modest position with an advertising agency. In less than two years he was a vice-president of the firm. Understanding the mechanisms by which humans are manipulated pays off. And the Public Relations and Advertising Industries have learned to use science and the findings of science when engaged in ad/public relations campaigns.
The child's development determines the adult:
watch?v=6f8NdC9Amhg
unseenstrings 3 years ago
We live in such an addictive society. Denial is so widespread as to be the norm.
I'd love to be able to change the system, I know it needs to change. But I also know that it is impossible, and the sad irony is I also know that it is my own fears feeding the addictive quality of 'a need to control' that makes me want to alter the system.
I guess in the end personal responsibility means viewing the many obstacles in the world around me not as obstacles, but as opportunities for growth.
xxxJimiGxxx 3 years ago 2
Children learn NO and should be taught KNOW.
People choose to be victims. THOUSANDS AGAINST ONE is a victims perspective.
Many do not take responsibility of being self-aware or understanding need over want and how to say NO.
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Many bathe in BELIEF instead of KNOWING. Humans CREATE powerful psychological reasons posing as REAL NEED all by themselves.
ADVERTISING VICTIMS?
No, only sheep that DO NOT think for themselves. Always large numbers of sheep. Always large numbers of 'FALSE VICTIMS'.
stanleysteama 3 years ago
But I believe that Obama has taken it to the extreme. This is where his superior campaign funds come into play. As the say, "money talks" and he who has it will almost always be the winner!
MORCOPOLO0817 3 years ago
I like your posts and I agree with a lot what you say. But as someone that does not support Obama, I have to say that Obam has learned about the power of the media by hiring bloggers that pose as people that they are not, therefore making readers think that their views are not comprehensive enough and that they have been missing some point that these "other Americans" clearly see. It is an attempt to sway opinion and get votes for Obama. I realize that many candidates have done this..Cont.
MORCOPOLO0817 3 years ago
I'm offended by so many types of in-your-face advertising, I would go out of my way NOT to buy the product or patronize the business that intrudes on my life. My kids clamor for things they see on TV even if they don't know what it is! My son particularly wants junky cereals he sees during kids' shows. They are shameless in peddling junk to children. It's ironic that "Journey to the Center of the Earth" keeps popping up in this video . . . I will definitely not be seeing it. ;-)
antiwarmom 3 years ago
It IS our fault. Your five year old kid can't buy mcdonalds for himself for every meal, he needs his parent to get it for him. So be a responsible parent and whats best for your kid, whether its eating mcdonalds every once in a while or never, its up to you. This applies to everything. This concept is not new, this is the same mentality that people lived by 40 years ago, but has since disappeared into rampant consumerism. Its an attitude shift, now we blame society instead of ourselves.
jdubEVH 3 years ago
Stop going on about rights of businesses. It is their right, if you choose to engage in their medium, whatever that may be, to show you whatever they want if it helps buy their product or whatever their purpose may be. Sick of commercials? Throw your tv out. Sick of in-store ad campaigns? Grow your own food, or do what I do: save your money, and DONT PAY ATTENTION TO THEM. There is no such thing as predatory advertising. People don't have to be a bunch of mentally disabled morons.
jdubEVH 3 years ago
Continued from earlier...but it all comes down to self-control. I'll be the first to condemn someone whose vices are wrecking their life and their loved ones lives, even while I chug a soda and buy fast food, because it's all about self control. I don't buy trendy clothing, or any other fad stuff, and a lot of other people don't either. You can't blame the ad companies for YOUR VICES, because it is your CHOICE. High gas prices are an example of something that isn't your choice, for example.
jdubEVH 3 years ago
Proteanview, I see you all over youtube and I have a great deal of respect for you and your viewpoints. However, I think you are confusing two separate issues. Being a victim of carefully crafted advertising and being a person who simply loves mcdonalds cheeseburgers, for instance, are two totally separate things. Another thing, I drink Mountain Dew because I enjoy soda, and I prefer mountain dew over others; not because it is healthier or pepsi is a better marketer, just personal preference.
jdubEVH 3 years ago
I agree jdubEVH. See my comments on Protean's comment board
sunstorm007 3 years ago
great vlog
battim 3 years ago
You are so on point with this vlog! And I love the annotations. You give us so much to think about in a medium filled with mindless foolishness. Thank you proteanview.
mayabrown 3 years ago
i seen an ad for KFC, i think we're feeling the cruel treatment of the chickens before they get slaughtered for packaging... anyway.. in the ad, we see this very fit looking man *TRYING to enjoy this piece of chicken... the selling of souls is endless. the only immortal thing in this world is money- if we be really honest
clintrocks69 3 years ago
stand up be a HUman
clintrocks69 3 years ago
I try my best to avoid advertising but it is very difficult, tighter controls may help a little but i think consumers really need to sit and read about all the fads their buying into the biggest issues are a lack of knowledge and learning to say no(especially to kids). So basically i believe we are at least 95 percent responsible for our conditioning.
yans21 3 years ago
The most intelligent, most highly paid people, and most ruthless people in the entire world are getting paid huge amounts of cash to use the latest in psychological advertising techniques against not only you, but your kids.
These child predators can never be escaped, and your point that you're nuts to think that advertising is just on TV is 100% absolutely correct.
AnonymousBChurch 3 years ago
They're ruthless because it works nowadays, due to this current "blame society" attitude. We engage in ridiculous consumerism all day and then blame society for our irresponsible behavior. Be a responsible person for yourself and your children, moron. Vulnerable kids don't have money or power unless you give it to them. Don't use the term "child predator"; I'm sure you'll feel like an ass for drawing that parallel if a child you care about does get molested.
jdubEVH 3 years ago
Doggone it, you went and made me feel even more depressed than I already did.
Deadbol7 3 years ago
I try to make my decisions upon factual information and I don't watch a lot of television anymore. But we are their victims I don't think we escape totally but for those who choose to pick up a good book or do some research of their I think they are better equipped to sort through the bull that is being told to us through the mass media we are responsible for the choices we make regardless if they are made from being aware or not of the potential danger of losing the ability to think objectively
brengale 3 years ago
The flaw is found in human for having a "plastic brain" so malleable you can do what you want with it and effective if you got them at younger age...
Our actually life-style system, mistakenly establish by few (psychopath individual purposely recruited by HR) require exploiting such "plastic mind" and the Corporate Social Responsibility are too afraid to discuss this facts openly which are responsible for the consumerism that is polluting the environment to climate change.
Part of the evolution
seyoumeye 3 years ago
It's pretty easy to avoid marketing, no TV or radio. In its other forms it's pretty easy to ignore. Works for me. I have no idea what is going on with you brainwashed mutants and don't want any. If you don't have a cell-phone the US is an alien culture. And I will not be assimilated!
farneyblakeley 3 years ago
Yes, I agree with you. Its very enlightening and frightening when you finally SEE all the strings that have been pulling you. Corporations, religion, government.
zerosleep73 3 years ago
Just kidding. A lot of what is said here is an interesting social commentary.
evideo2008 3 years ago
look on youtube it's a bird. It's a plane. It's NEUROTIC MAN.
evideo2008 3 years ago
people, the marketers see us as one thing only and that is sources of potential revenue; to them, we become consumers the moment we begin to see. this is not about freedom, this is about learning the difference between real human needs and neurotic consumer demands. every thing that you "have to have" owns you!
michaelbillypec 3 years ago
well said. we are drowning in a sea of advertisements everywhere we go; the best thing to do is turn off the tv; it hypnotizes you and makes you more open to ads and to programming. They make you want what you don't need, regardless of wether you can afford it or not. They are always there to remind you that there is somplace else you'd rather be. They teach you to emulate the wealthy.
michaelbillypec 3 years ago
I agree with what you're saying in this video. Marketing companies do a lot of research to find out how we think and what we respond to. Without consciously thinking, we have formed an oppinion and a decision as to whether or not we will buy something. Now they are showing the same commercial several times during a tv show, continuing to flash it into our memories.
NikkiForever10 3 years ago
it makes you fat during the fast food commercials
dacomedyshow 3 years ago
lol..yeah dacomedyshow, you run into the kitchen and grab something to eat every time, not realizing that you're not even hungry...
NikkiForever10 3 years ago
I'm not sure how large a role advertising has had in crafting the hyperconsumerism culture you see in affluent societies, but we have found ourselves in some version of Aldus Huxley's Brave New World. It isn't so hard to think of people who spend themselves to the brink of financial ruin so that they will appear to be prosperous, "appear" being the functional word.
I agree that we need to take more responsibility but in general we'll need the proper education to know that.
jmoctar 3 years ago
The only conclusion one can reach from your rant is that society needs more control, laws, regulations. In other words, less freedom.
I'll take a world with more freedom and choices over control and regulation any and every day.
bringideason 3 years ago
bringideason: Perhaps we should allow cigarette companies to advertise in schools? Why not allow minors to smoke? I mean, we give Phillip Morris the right to market and sell its poisons to adults. I'm all for legalizing drugs - truly. In the vain of freedoms, why not allow corporations to prey on children? After all, it's their choice. No one will make them smoke cigarettes. I'm w/you. Let's put Joe Camel ads on vending machines. Businesses should enjoy that freedom.
proteanview 3 years ago
I'm all for that. Legalize Marijuana and let me die slowly into the time that doesn't exist. By the way, it isn't "society" that needs more control bringideason, it's people. Every human being needs more control, that way we won't need a corrupt "society" or sad form of government. Explain to me why we have a third world? Humanity needs to wake the fuck up and save ourselves from extinction. I'd love to help the third world, unfortunately I need the 5 billion dollars spent on advertising.
Genkakuzai 3 years ago
proteanview, in this case vain is spelled vein.
michaelbillypec 3 years ago
Good questions, and I, without thinking about it for more than a few seconds, would say leave it to each school and it's local authorities to decide about allowing advertising. I would personally not want it in schools, but I wouldn't force every school to do as I do.
bringideason 3 years ago
is your name protien becuase ure black?
killdatcow 3 years ago
Advertising is like a form of economic drug addiction. The fact is, we don't need most things we buy, but advertising makes them seem desirable so we do. This artificially accelerates the economy, like an upper, driving us to over-use resources, but keeping people in jobs overproducing these often redundant products. Take shampoo; soap will do the same job, but we spend billions on shampoo & conditioner with cranberry extract etc. We do this to waste money and keep other people rich.
formless777 3 years ago
Sorry Pro, but I can't understand the part about who this is not geared to... "Iran Evangelicals" what's that?
RVqueen 3 years ago
RVqueen: 'Ayn Rand' evangelicals
proteanview 3 years ago
When I see anyone driving a new vehicle, getting a mortgage, putting on makeup, or even wearing a fashionable shirt such as yours, those kind of things say to me, "look at me, I've been successfully marketed to!"
RVqueen 3 years ago
RVqueen: Guilty as charged
proteanview 3 years ago
Advertisements do have an effect on our perception of products/services; that's what they are banking on when they start production.
However, we are responsible for our thoughts about a product regardless of how much it's rotated. If we are unfamiliar with it then the decision about purchasing should not be left to marketers but instead researched through unbiased sources so that you may form your own opinion without intereference.
WomanInTransition 3 years ago
not everyone can be president apart from the stupidity of the idea we are all different and not all able in all ways the thing which makes us the same is that we are all completely different.
ooglebydoogleby 3 years ago
Quality rant, Protean. It falls into the vein of the work that Michael Tsarion is known for. You have a new friend now.
opinionhead444 3 years ago
awesome john travolta shirt, go saturday night fever.
Aharleygyrl 3 years ago
our brains don't move as fast as your words. put some neighborkids in back of the camera and talk to them...pretend you already know them if you don't. pay them to listen. i think you could be one of the great speakers of our time, you just gotta slow down and create more style and emphasis on certain points...in other words..take a breath! lol.
Aharleygyrl 3 years ago
Right! I might start by wondering how on earth you come to realize all these important subject that have, more or less, sunk into the background of our lives. I love your out-of-the-box thinking!
I agree with your message in the video though, and one might wonder if we need regulations that force all the different brands on the market to be tested and compared, and the best ones to be lifted out for what they are - a way to stop the curse of agressive rhetorical advertisement.
Athaeus 3 years ago
Yo Protean! Good video man going on my favorites, if anyone views my favorites this video definitely needs to be there to educate just a little more, it never hurts. Thanks for the very mature and intelligent post.
Tenatiouz 3 years ago
furthermore, 'they' first stripped ppl of any self worth by manipulating them to beleive that one is worthless unless one has plenty of material possession - this is continuing today wher everyone looks externally for happiness/fulfilment. Thus they play on the worthlessness THEY created by selling u somthing to make u feel betta. Crazzzzy but it works ...its called materialism.
Badwolf182 3 years ago
You seem to think for yourself. That's very un-American of you. *tsk tsk*
gldmj55 3 years ago
Plus, advertisiers r very cluey -they dont just sell a product they r a selling a lifestyle to u. exampl coke - full of young good looking ppl having fun.. they r selling u an idea that u too will b popular, young and beautiful if u drink coke - even if it is that black crap full of chemicals.
they play on ppl's weaknessess/self esteem - same game play for any product b it cars or homes or clothes. thanx i hav had my rant...Ohmmmmmmm
Badwolf182 3 years ago
firstly'they'(corporations/media/governments)
- decades ago hired a psychologist to research wat wuld appeal to ppl. Even now supermarket shelves will hav certain products at eye level only and it costs those companies more to have those eye shelving. even the music is selected based on increased spending... nothing is random. even those little gums/sweets at the cashier -called impulse buying yep they know exactly how we operate. They dont call us sheeple for nothing.
Badwolf182 3 years ago
Have you lost your damn mind? Why in the world would you ever think more government is the answer to anything? This video about made my head explode. ;)
Lurple 3 years ago
get mad.
submariner176 3 years ago
excellent video, very deep
super8hogan 3 years ago
Don't forget the "Free" media. A lot of messages are sent subliminally through everyday things that most people would think is untouched like television, cinema, and music. Not to mention through the way we communicate, for instance the word homophobe, according to popular spell check engines, like those on YouTube, is not a word, however a word like fag, and homo-although which have different meanings or can be used in a different context- are words. Just something to think about.
MyNameIsToasty 3 years ago
"take personal resposibility to make there will power everything" Ya I get where your coming from. This isn't necessarily linked to advertising. But a lot of college level people my age mid 20s. They always gotta prove a point it seems like. Or will judge really quick sometimes like NERDS! you know? without understanding the individual. I do think my generation is more AD aware. We grew up with ad busters. And internet has helped us dodge a lot of those ads so to speak. Like this channel.
djgiga 3 years ago
Great video!!
KaiserSousey 3 years ago
Every one has been tooled in one form or another. The ones who deny it and cut there own path, buy into the products and materials that define them. There is a market for everything. We as a people ar definatly too consumerlicious! LOL!
gnwhite 3 years ago
sweet word, consumerlicious--- I love it and I wonder if Fergie will one day make a song for it LOL :)
super8hogan 3 years ago
Blame the victim, so you won't blame the perpetrator! There is external influence, and we're not supposed to organize against it.
There should be more controls; even adults need some space but also for children-I as a parent successfully choose to raise my child without TV, but in the mid-90's screens started showing up in the cabs and grocery stores. If we can ban public smoking, we should control advertising, too.
partial personal antidotes-meditation; abstinence(media); discussion
givebirthathome 3 years ago
givebirth: Yeah. We're taught at an early age that everything that happens in our lives is our fault. This is a virtual 'Get Out of Jail Free' card for governmental and corporate criminals. We aren't weak because we're influenced by billions of dollars, we're human. The very folks who suffer from this are the very ones defending the rights of the perpetrators and *that* is not only weak but a sad and defeatist attitude cloaked in pseudo confidence. (Sorry. I got carried away)
proteanview 3 years ago
Have you noticed, at the very start of understanding how manufacturers and advertisers begin 'conditioning' children, producing boys toys in primary colours & girls toys in pastel colours..And we've all heard the rhyme telling us that little boys are made of slugs & snails & puppy dogs tails, and little girls are made of sugar & spice & all things nice. Modern teaching encourages critical thinking. Good parenting initiates it.
dotlot 3 years ago
Yeah! Ayn Rand blows, I actually liked the Fountainhead, then read Atlas Shrugged made me puke shit. Great job once again! HD Thereous brain would explode if he saw the modern world
velcroFathoms 3 years ago
My view is that people need to understand themselves first in order to limit outside influence of others. If you understand your ability and your tendency then you should have no problem with advertisements or propaganda. The best way to understand oneself is to try different things, interact with different people and cultures as much as possible, seek knowledge and of course watch less TV.
uzoma0024 3 years ago
Most people are dumb, they need advertising to tell them what to do, otherwise they'll just sit there being dumb. That's what the whole republican and democrat farce is all about, get people polarized into a couple groups, then have them fight it out, meanwhile they never realize the state has crushed their freedom.
subach 3 years ago
way we internalize those msgs and choose what we accept to believe
violet787 3 years ago
violet: Since it's completely our choice and not the advertising, why can't we advertise cigarettes to children? It's choice. Phillip Morris should at least be able to place cigarette ads at schools for the "teacher's sake". If advertising should have no responsibility, perhaps they should be allowed to market anything to every one of any age. In the end, it all supposedly comes down to choice, right?
proteanview 3 years ago
it is completely our choice as to how we evaluate the msgs that we are being bombarded with and which of the msgs we choose to believe or discard. Again, I don't think we can escape being influenced by advertising b/c we are always being advertised too whether it is done by a recongnized brand or not. Escaping advertisment is like trying to escape peer pressure. you can't. you can say no to one pressure and yes to another. same with a brand or idea. pro Iguess it depends on how you define choice
violet787 3 years ago
Advertising in and of itself is not bad. Advertising makes the product or idea that is being promoted "normal" or "familiar." The issue is not that advertising companies play a role in shaping the way ppl think; It's more complex than that. guardians and teachers need to do a better job @ teaching children how to be critical thinkers. We r all socialized and interdependent upon the ideas and msgs of society, but we can play an active role in the
violet787 3 years ago
I don't agree with making new laws. Since we have enough ridiculous laws on the books right now. However, were the people to make a law making it illegal for advertising agency's to use psychology in advertising, then they would have a lot less influence in their ads. They would argue it infringes on their right to free speech. However it is also illegal to scream "fire" in a crowded theater if is not true. This is what the ad agency's are doing, there is no "fire", but they are screaming it.
THE1CALLEDJ 3 years ago
THE1CALLED: I agree on both counts. I'm not for more laws, but when businesses may advertise cigarettes (poisons) to us and the FDA approves it, some action must be taken to look out for our welfare.
proteanview 3 years ago
Great video ProteanVew,you always make us think.
blair227 3 years ago
STOP stupification!
NOW!
0PsycoDad0 3 years ago
with minimal research you can find out how TV especially is used to sway our thought processes. the majority of people don't have an understanding of how their brain processes information so they don't see the tactics used in advertising as being all that persuasive, they just figure it's a great product or service.
go 6 months without watching any tv and when you watch it again you'll see just how incredibly awkward it really is. that's my 10 cents (gotta combat 'inflation'...).
intrepgun 3 years ago
I find the notion that we are mindless zombies that can be convinced to buy anything by marketers as offensive. I make a decision on what to buy and its all my responsibility. I believe in knowing the facts about a product and making an educated decision.
There are plenty of idiots that buy stuff that they shouldnt. However, the blame isnt on the marketers it is on the buyers who make poor decisions (unless there is fraud involved).
Everyone just wants to pass along the blame.
esostrov 3 years ago
you always have nice shirts lol
AcheKah 3 years ago
I'm going to sit back and watch the political shit hit the fan...
Some people will blame America even though other countries do it too... whee.
Lowbudget2 3 years ago
marketing is the most cynical of the arts, its' output is destructive to the planet, the culture and the individual.
gratex 3 years ago
It's called the art of manipulation.
An ad-chief once revealed, that if you take away advertizing from the market, the whole economy will collaps, due to lack of consumption.
It works so well, cause the majority is followers, only few are independent thinkers and half of them is addicted to money (the BEST drug for the brain, due to the triggered dopamine system) and/or suffer from antisocial personality disorder, destroying the reciprocal altruism, every community is based upon.
Tressco 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this. I do believe it is a personal responsibility to be a "wise consumer". I do not think advertising should be more regulated in mass media even if it is unfair. People have to make money to provide for their people. We have all been been hurt by ads in some way, but we must learn to understand them and pick and choose what we want from them. Life is about discovery.
kakushibuki808 3 years ago
this assumes that their advertising works the way "they" plan it to. I think a wide variety of things effect how/what we think, and the fact that advertisments is among them is not necessarily a bad thing.
CallMeNiel 3 years ago
i totally agree....no matter what you cannot escape the power of the advertising department when they spend millions of dollars for your attention + money. doesnt have to be anything important either...just one nifty coca-cola commercial can trigger SOMEONE on the planet to go out there and buy a coka-cola.
dehbee 3 years ago
Subversive advertising or propaganda has been used for decades, to mould public opinion. The old addage of if you tell people the same message over and over, eventually they will buy into whatever you wish them to think stil applies. Its just that, they now use all forms of media, intenet, telesales, flyers etc, its an endless bombardment of misinformation, and we wonder why we buy stuff when clearly we don't need to. Its all enforced sales.
choiysa101 3 years ago
Who opts out of a cell phone? Victims of change. When you work longer for less this is the answer. The fad is you are class categorized. Capitalism has many faces. The most obvious is that manufacturing is the mainstay of the workers and research and development is the mainstay of management. The face you hardly see is the owner or co- owners. Individuals that have created the corporation, that decide the fate of everyone else. Ultimately, technology is the market.
jdrizd2 3 years ago
Good video! 5*
gius96 3 years ago
signs that tells when you are waking up.
by experience.xd. unable to fell textures, as well as odor textures,being unable to talk, stop earing voices and noises, hving more and more difficulty to see or and weak noise comming out of nowhere graduadly going up until it freaks you out at that point of waking up wickedly fast. you have 5 senses.notice how they are involved in waking you up. when ur dreaming and having a good dream strat felling one of those.its like ah crap, back to real world.lol
monsterrun 3 years ago
why do dreams look damn real most of time.
cuase your senses record info and save it on your brain."is it true" if you become concious that you dream and you are actually detecting that your going to wake up soon. and decide to bring something to real world."it wont work lol" but if you whant the thing that bad. a t2 can materialize the obeject he/she whant to pass to the real world. psychic is strong. and real,ok we all hear stories here and there. but all this is real. try it yourself.
monsterrun 3 years ago
nanotechnologies implant can speed up learning process of all that in our brain by up too 100 times faster.
try being councious as you sleep. i mean being aware that your are dreaming,or having a nightmare. the ppl you see in your dreams actually see you as well on their side. dreams are using more then 75% of your brain.
you use more your brain in a dream then on the "real world" well if you whant to base your senses as the only barier that make a difference between real and not real.
monsterrun 3 years ago
as for other levels. t4 are able to physycaly force you brain signal to create a felling. like being poked on the shoulder. manipulating target muscles and nerves. but very lightly. and also they can block you very well to read their minds. t3 get more serious. then can literally push you and punch from afar. t2 again more powerful. they can distract sensors, jam signals, create physycal bariers of psychic energy.
as for t1 they can divise their mind.
t0 are basicly impossible to achive.
monsterrun 3 years ago
talking about will power.
everone can be powerful t1'S if they pratice themself. everyone starts out as a t6. just aware and concious about you brain psychic powers.just unable to make anything happen.
t5 can alter others ppl thinking,they can read minds but not perfectly."how this works"
look at someone you wich to talk too. then ask the person a question in your head. wait a few seconds.....frigin 500 words limits. next post
monsterrun 3 years ago
Why do people continue to complain if they can't not solve problem?
octcalderon 3 years ago
how do you market an abandonment of a proxy life?
ParapaDrifter 3 years ago
I think red state/blue state is a con to get people to accept a two party system. Party means nothing to me, its about the stance a politician takes. I admire Republican Ron Paul, but also have respect for Democrat Mike Gravel and Democrat Dennis Cucinich. Sexy women in advertising doesn't affect my choice of beer, taste and cost does. Celebs don't persuade me either. I consider myself an independant thinker, but good question though. I wonder just how much advertising does affect my decisions.
buddyfreakinholly 3 years ago
buddy: Yeah, the red/blue state stuff seems to be about getting us polarized into two fighting camps so we're busy debating each other while the leaders of both camps sell us down the river. I don't know of anyone who thinks they are affected by advertising.
proteanview 3 years ago
Good god man, the truth. I didn't think it was still out there. There may be hope yet..
henjokongo 3 years ago
All linguistics affect genetics. Whoever has the most info about this holds all the cards unfortunately.
TheToltec 3 years ago
Interesting.
aDifferentView 3 years ago
Just imagine the Propaganda they'll be pushing when the Verichip is implemented??
AiresQX4 3 years ago 3
Verichip- what's that?
bl4ckd0g187 3 years ago
Aires: Is that anything like RFID? My phone has that capability already.
proteanview 3 years ago
This is generally why I don't have firefox on my cpu, thats a really scary program. Highlights your key words and links them to things for you to buy. Look at myspace when you write stuff in your subscription you'll see Advertisments of what key words you wrote.
Deathicorn 3 years ago
I object to the "victims" term. No matter how much they spend there's still stuff they want me to buy that I'm not. We're more victimized by government who prey upon anyone with a job. From birth our parents signed us into their system before we knew what was happening. That is not true with those "evil corporations", we can opt out if we want. Try opting out of taxes, laws and regulations. Fat chance! Death or prison is our only choice; as long as we all put up with the tyranny, that is.
spamsponge 3 years ago
but its all designed to make your life better , advertising a wonderful thing that
truthfully mainstay of the civilized world , its almost as accretion as American evangelist take on the bible , what would those backward Iranians know about the jew , o yeah Zoroastrians the jews master,
manwiththecalicobag 3 years ago
If you haven't seen it yet, watch
George Carlin - The American Dream
Can't help but think it's our own fault.
milliradian 3 years ago
corporate sponsorship of public space (which all space really is) allows them to advertise as they please. We all know that corporations only HAVE to make money, they don't owe us anything. It's funny that the money they generate has so much more power than the people they're supposed to cater to. Turns out, WE serve THEM.
DANE842 3 years ago
it doenst make sense to try to combine philosophy with everyday things. for example, theres no evidence of free will. so much for this discussion.
EverettsVLOG 3 years ago
You make some good points, but there is a whole other side to the argument that you didn't address. How much influence does the general population have over advertisement? A lot. Almost all of it because they are the masses to whom a company is selling to. Advertising is being shaped by public opinion just as much, if not more than, public opinion is shaped by advertising.
makeyanoticeme 3 years ago
Your argument is incomplete. You can't assert that advertising is designed to take advantage of people and does, and justify the assertion with "because people try to use it that way." I may TRY to move the Earth out of orbit, but it doesn't move. I disagree we need control of marketing(you couldn't find a place to draw the line), but agree it's bad thing in the company of stupidity; however, before you start legislating, prove advertising works in unethical ways. Anything can appear/FEEL evil.
HymerSchmidt 3 years ago
Hymer: So, why bother preventing companies from marketing cigarettes to children? It's their choice, after all. No one is making them. Why can't we advertise cocaine? After all, it's personal choice; no one makes us? If we spent more time looking out for the welfare of individuals as we do looking out for the rights of companies, perhaps Manhattan wouldn't have had to ban trans fats.
proteanview 3 years ago
It's illegal for children to smoke cigarettes; I'm sure you're aware. I'm sure you're aware cocaine is illegal too. I have no problems with cocaine ads though, and you know children are an exception; they are essentially retarded adults without the ability to reason. And still, they should have parents to reason for them. You aren't arguing for pre-existing restrictions -- you are arguing for more than exists at current. Where and why do people need you to protect them?
HymerSchmidt 3 years ago
Hymer: If everything is simply a result of personal choice and not advertising, there's no reason cigarettes should be illegal for children. That we allow a known killer to be marketed even to adults is another cause to redefine what's acceptable as advertising.
proteanview 3 years ago
I'm sold on this one. :P
WhatIsNotSeen 3 years ago
too true
fairies098 3 years ago
When large corporations are deliberately brainstorming to induce desires through clever marketing campaigns, the ones targeted and affected are like children being taken advantage of by adults. Many advertisers use their target market, the peoples ignorance to their advantage. In a sense I am responsible for being aware and self-realized, and as a benefit, I am more immune to trickery. But when thousands are thinking against me, I dont stand a chance. Its almost like bullying.
cosmanthony21 3 years ago
The billions and billions spent on advertising could be put to better use. We've been babied wayyyy to long. When I was young, no money left over to spend on extras. Now, if you don't have money, put it on plastic (suffer the consequences later). Later??? Methinks the chickens have come in to roost!
fiddlepat 3 years ago
Man I'm so glad I subscribed to you. Would love to sit down and have a long talk with you. I always respect your views no matter if I agree or disagree.
Psilo007 3 years ago
Ive always been the most free thinking person that there is, Ive never been fooled. I constantly see all of you being duped by these corporations, all the while I sit back in my comfortable Lazy Boy™ armchair, tear into a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos®, open up a delicious can of ice cold Pepsi™ (which by the way not only tastes great but is also good for you) and laugh at all of you fools who allow yourselves to play there game.
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ogjimkenobi 3 years ago 2
Pro-Tean-Shake, We have Millions of Americans who watch Fox News and believe Barack Obama is a muslim sleeper cell. There are millions of Americans who can't even tell you where Kabul is on a map! We have millions of people in this country who know more about Britney Spear's lipstick brand then they do about world history. What makes you think American society will change now with marketing these campeigns? We will always be dumb and stupid and sucked in by the mass media! It's the American way!
renijohn012270 3 years ago
renijohn: OMG have you seen Britney's new shoes? :-P
proteanview 3 years ago
great video. it can be argued, philosophically (i've seen academic papers and NY Times articles) that free will is an illusion. assuming it is real, of course society creates the boundaries on what choices we have. there is no doubt that the constant imprinting of advertising data upon the human mind has a profound affect on our lives. we not only come to synthesize a brandname into our consciousness, but also an entire lifestyle and cultural value system.
hemlocksage77 3 years ago
I think most people are just mindless sheep. Sounds cruel and tired already, but that's what I believe. To be honest, I'm not affected by advertising; I hardly ever watch TV and I never click on internet ads, in fact I just glaze over them. But obviously corporations wouldn't be speding billions in advertising if it weren't a good investment. I don't know or care about the policy side of things, I just find it pitiful that billions are spent on advertising, and that is works.
UnhealthySalad 3 years ago
I am a sheep when it comes to the entertainment industy..
Anyone up for world of warcraft and followed up by the movie knocked up?!
thefakeyeti 3 years ago
Very profound! Geez! You say the most interesting things. I was just having this conversation about propaganda and its affects. The mind is a terrible thing to waste...the advertisers know this. That's why they go straight to our "domes" (dome=head/brain).
Kudos! 5 stars again!
Moknosmusik 3 years ago
Excellent video, well said.
theburnman 3 years ago
"Do I believe in conspiracies? Naw.
Do I believe powerful people would get together and plan for certain outcomes? Naw.
Do I believe powerful interests would operate outside the law? Naw.
I think everything in America is open, clean and above-board; and powerful people always play by the rules."
-George Carlin
scotsmanlerxt 3 years ago