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Many educational professionals blame cartoons and video
games for mental shallowness and low general knowledge.
Reading books, among others, should enhance the mental
development. But books don't seem to 'cut it' when
compared to the joy and ease of games and cartoons.
In the early 1950s
people started to talk about practices of
advertising "below the threshold of awareness", or
subliminal
messages. While showing a ‘normal’ movie, the audience
could
be persuaded to feel thirsty for a particular brand of cola.
This was done by showing very short bursts of image 'frames'
of
the product in between the 'frames' of the shown movie.
Why not combine these two, and try to subliminaly teach
our
youth, by sending book texts through the video signal of
cartoon broadcasts and videogames.
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Baked. You can do it on the internet right now. |
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I bet you didn't even realize it just now. |
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Subliminal messaging is illegal in most countries. |
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Subliminal messages for commercial purposes might be
illegal, but for 'educational' purposes? Like, interweaving
the complete À la Recherche du Temps Perdu from
Marcel Proust, in one year's programming of the Cartoon
Network? As long as it wouldn't boost the ratings it would
not be illegal I guess. |
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Subliminal messageing only works for simple things, like a picture of popcorn, to encourage people to go buy. More complex things, like the page of a novel, takes more time to be absorbed, and so wouldn't work. The idea has good intentions, but its impractical, is unlikely to be any use for those over the age of about 7, due to the need for simplicity in teachings. |
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bliss I thought that was more of a 'Truncheon of misunderstanding?' than a subliminal message..... |
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Actually, thumb there's wax's quite ideas revolution deserve the croissants. |
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let's try first with simple messages like: E=mc2 or a2+b2=c2 |
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Good idea - well-intentioned, at least - bUt You're FOrgetting that, as [sctld] says, miXing In Subliminals is foRbidden In the leGislation of most sopHisticated naTions. |
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Guy Fox: Except of course the Government, doing it without telling anyone, and entirely for their own good of course ....... |
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8th of 7: i'm REally SurprISed ThAt you're so coNCErned. if thIs iS what you believe, then yoU have SELflessly endangEred your own life just by publiciSing thiS fact. I for one don't think our lovely masters would do anything like that. God bless 'em. |
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Homer: Damn those disingenuous mountebanks with their subliminal chicanery! |
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I think this is a good idea. You could put shapes and colors and letters subliminally into childrens programming. It could encourage faster learning in toddlers. Or with the righ images we could create some great new revolutionaries... or minions... or maids... the list goes on. |
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