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Advertising at children should be banned. Parents should consider it no less than predatory, and act accordingly. Children can't consent to all the psycho-beha

Advertising at children should be banned. Parents should consider it no less than predatory, and act accordingly. Children can't consent to all the psycho-behavioral research and artfully composed subliminal content a modern advertisement delivers. It's creepy that we accept there are adults in offices with whiteboards and Adobe products thinking hard about how to influence and manipulate children.

astazangasta 8y ago
This is the society that produced Fruit Loops and Lucky Charms; the notion that it cares at all about children, or anyone else, is rubbished by the child obesity statistics. What's creepy is that we've built a society that rewards this mentality with greater power: those who are able to successfully market disgusting crap to children are "winners". If you have a problem with this, you have a problem with capitalism. Advertising is nothing. There are people out there, right now, designing, manufacturing, shipping and deploying all sorts of lethal devices that are maiming and killing children all over the world.
- angel_j 8y ago
  Of course I have a problem with capitalism! But I don't believe that society chose all those things (branded cereal madness, etc), I think it was more or less thrust on them. That people seem more interested in getting ahead and pleasing their egos, instead of trying to repair or escape, is a kind of syndrome—the syndrome of being trapped in an idealogy. DGMW, I would love to berate parenting, childcare, and education in the US; I mean, I would just beat it about the brow for being so retarding, if I could Like, how do you trade middling entertainment and financial reward for terrible, indoctrinating, media and education for your offspring? You must be some kind of real selfish idiotic shitbrain to send your children to grade C- public school, while you go off and sit at a desk for peanut pay so you can afford, what?, convenient foodstuffs and the trappings of dignified success in a system that yr suspicions suggest doesn't care about you? FOH! But no, I can only suppose a syndrome, and blame no one. The majority are being used by capitalists, and if they grow in that mold, knowingly or not, successful or not, it's not their fault; there's no obvious, non-serious, way out of capitalist subjugation, except for the American Dream, which is ofc to become one of them. So, I think it tactical to treat this kind of spectre—invasive media campaigns aimed at children—as an outside, enemy, force; (today, all parents of young people, were themselves targeted by these forces, so they have the right to be pissed about it); If nothing else, people can get behind anti-child-predation, even if they aren't ready to stop the military industrial complex, or capitalism.

astazangasta 8y ago

This is the society that produced Fruit Loops and Lucky Charms; the notion that it cares at all about children, or anyone else, is rubbished by the child obesity statistics. What's creepy is that we've built a society that rewards this mentality with greater power: those who are able to successfully market disgusting crap to children are "winners". If you have a problem with this, you have a problem with capitalism. Advertising is nothing. There are people out there, right now, designing, manufacturing, shipping and deploying all sorts of lethal devices that are maiming and killing children all over the world.

angel_j 8y ago
Of course I have a problem with capitalism! But I don't believe that society chose all those things (branded cereal madness, etc), I think it was more or less thrust on them. That people seem more interested in getting ahead and pleasing their egos, instead of trying to repair or escape, is a kind of syndrome—the syndrome of being trapped in an idealogy. DGMW, I would love to berate parenting, childcare, and education in the US; I mean, I would just beat it about the brow for being so retarding, if I could Like, how do you trade middling entertainment and financial reward for terrible, indoctrinating, media and education for your offspring? You must be some kind of real selfish idiotic shitbrain to send your children to grade C- public school, while you go off and sit at a desk for peanut pay so you can afford, what?, convenient foodstuffs and the trappings of dignified success in a system that yr suspicions suggest doesn't care about you? FOH! But no, I can only suppose a syndrome, and blame no one. The majority are being used by capitalists, and if they grow in that mold, knowingly or not, successful or not, it's not their fault; there's no obvious, non-serious, way out of capitalist subjugation, except for the American Dream, which is ofc to become one of them. So, I think it tactical to treat this kind of spectre—invasive media campaigns aimed at children—as an outside, enemy, force; (today, all parents of young people, were themselves targeted by these forces, so they have the right to be pissed about it); If nothing else, people can get behind anti-child-predation, even if they aren't ready to stop the military industrial complex, or capitalism.