Advertising & Personal Responsibility

Are those thousands of brains & billions of dollars aimed at you a waste of resources? I mean, we make our own decisions, right? We have will-power.

We all think we're immune to advertising... that we consciously make our own choices. We frame it as an argument between strength and weakness and who wants to be weak?

Is Madison Av simply wasting those billions of dollars and thousands of minds or do we dismiss our own vulnerability at the expense of our well-being... and all for the sake of a so-called strong economy based on consumption?

Are we responsible for our conditioning - I mean 'choices'?

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)

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[quinn2469]

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.

[metamorphises]

this is basically the culture of affluenza...

the U.S. sucks man

[seflersinsburg10]

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.

[anonazero]

If You're Looking For the Guilty, You Need Only Look Into a Mirror

- V

[NotTooObvious]

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.

[nerdboyxx]

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.

[NoFreeSpeechonYT]

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.

[nerdboyxx]

you have your opinions then, when you die youll feel the pain but your lucky noone strikes you down now.

[NoFreeSpeechonYT]

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.

[nerdboyxx]

I have read it back to front, you owe me a million dollars dumbass.

[NoFreeSpeechonYT]

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.

[nerdboyxx]

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.