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Advertising works really well. You're a slave to the rich
who can afford it.
Deprogram yourself! Every time you see an ad, go see
another ad that counteracts it.
Watch a Coke commercial? Watch some close-ups of gum
disease. Now you won't want to waste money on soda.
Watch a car commercial?
Watch a poor obese man drive
that car. Now you won't want to waste money on an
overpriced car.
Watch a political ad? Watch one of Hitler's speeches. Now
you won't want to waste a vote on a pandering asshole.
This only works if the anti-ads you watch are as good or
better than the ads you saw. The anti-ad must speak to
your hindbrain. Watching Noam Chomsky ain't gonna get
Trump out of your head.
If only it were possible to avoid all advertising. As it is, I
have to play the game, or I'll get eaten by people who
pretend they're also not playing.
Anti-ads could fix school too, by giving math and subtle
literature a glamour befitting their power.
https://www.adbusters.org/
[pocmloc, Nov 23 2015]
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I'd like to buy the world a Coke, and keep it company.
It's the REAL Thing. |
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( Swaying in time to the music. ) |
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So start a website like "Hot or Not" was. |
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Submit two links - one pro commercial one con commercial. Then ask the crowd to vote on which pairs are most evenly yoked or equivalent in strength. |
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Once you get a reputation for fairness and even-handedness, develop something like the pg m x ratings for movies. Only certain pairs allowed on Saturday morning TV. |
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What if you try a product and learn weather or not it is good or bad and that would fix the problem? |
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//Advertising works really well. You're a slave to the rich who can afford it.// |
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Not really. Two close relatives of mine spent much of their working lives in the industry, so I have something approaching an inside view of this. Advertising works a bit, for certain limited objectives. It doesn't do nothing (at least, it doesn't *usually* do nothing, though epic fails still occur sometimes), but it doesn't enslave anyone. Except in its dreams. |
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There are two groups who regularly exaggerate the power of advertising. One is the advertisers themselves. The other is sad Marxists who are desperate for a reason why most people don't agree with them. I have some sympathy for the sad Marxists, but I think in this case they have got the wrong scapegoat. |
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I'm wondering - who produces really good ads for gum
disease? |
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It so happens that I recently read an excellent short story on this topic by a Bulgarian named Alexander Shpatov. In the story, Bulgarians are hired as extras for scenes they somehow never see, and it turns out that the director is filming anti-commercials, which he sells to companies as a form of blackmail. |
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