keccers
@keccers.eth
You aren’t allowed to hate on this. What are you, a Europooor? A Communist? Do you hate money? These are the innovations that are responsible for 🇺🇸’s outsized GDP. To be an American is to have an advertisement shoved down your throat at all times and like it
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Vinay Vasanji
@vinayvasanji.eth
The quintessential American thing is celebrating ads in Time Square or the Superbowl Half Time — they are ads, they are an ode to capitalism
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keccers
@keccers.eth
Super Bowl half time ads also serve double duty as being a means for bureaucrats to determine how in tune they are with the Culture Lasch says in “Revolt of the Elites” advertising has subsumed all other information, even our news “In a curious historical twist, advertising, publicity, and other forms of commercial persuasion themselves came to be disguised as information. Advertising and publicity substituted for open debate. “Hidden persuaders” (as Vance Packard called them) replaced the old-time editors, essayists, and orators who made no secret of their partisanship. Information and publicity became increasingly indistinguishable. Most of the “news” in our newspapers—40 percent, according to the conservative estimate of Professor Scott Cutlip of the University of Georgia—consists of items churned out by press agencies and public relations bureaus and then regurgitated intact by the “objective” organs of journalism.”
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