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As a recovering marketer I take no offense to that statement. I started my exit from the field when I was working with a PR firm that was running a "behavior mo
by reilly3000 7y ago
As a recovering marketer I take no offense to that statement. I started my exit from the field when I was working with a PR firm that was running a "behavior modification" campaign. Psyops presumably has regulations and oversight; marketing has nothing of the sort. Want to convince a billion people to drink an addictive chemical known to cause colon cancer? Classic.
- Liquix 7y agoWas that a hypothetical..? If not, are you at liberty to share which chemical?
- Porthos9K 7y agoI'm thinking high-fructose corn syrup or brominated vegetable oil.
- reilly3000 7y agoI was referring to Coca-cola, consistently among the top advertisers in the world. Often things that are so large and commonplace, its difficult for us to see them as anything but 'normal'.
- mabbo 7y agoI thought to myself "that's a bit much, like advertising could trick me into drinking a dangerous beverage" then read your follow-up comment and realized I'm holding a coke in my other hand.
- Porthos9K 7y agoInsidious, isn't it? It's moments like this that I wish to all the devils ever worshiped by man that the left had jumped on the "red pill" metaphor from The Matrix instead of leaving it for misogynists and reactionaries to appropriate. Because until the Wachowski sisters brought in the "Neo is the One" plotline with the attendant messianic tropes, the relationship between Morpheus and Thomas Anderson/Neo was one of a union organizer showing a worker blinded by false consciousness exactly how he allowed himself to be conned by his bosses.
- Porthos9K 7y agoThat's what I figured from the "Classic." bit, but I didn't want to spoil it for everybody else. :)
- mymacbook 7y agoAre you referring to alcohol or something else?
- Porthos9K 7y agoCheck out the ingredients on your favorite soft drink. There's probably all sorts of stuff listed that has been shown to cause cancer in rats.
- greggman2 7y agoOranges, Mangos, Black Pepper, and lots of other natural things cause cancer in rats
- Porthos9K 7y agoI don't know about you, but I find it easier to consume massive quantities of Coca-Cola than I do black pepper.
- prewett 7y agoOranges and mangoes, on the other hand...
- Porthos9K 7y agoI've never been able to eat an entire orange or an entire mango. But drinking an entire two-liter bottle of Coke over the course of a couple of hours while coding or writing? That's easy. That's why I'm fat.
- greggman2 7y agoDrinking the same amount of OJ will also make you fat. If OJ is too tart choose another type of orange like mandarin oranges. They're just as cancerous to rats and you can drink them like fruit punch as they are not tart. The point is "gives rats cancer" bascially has no meaning. As another example chocolate is poison to dogs. Does that mean humans shouldn't eat chocolate foods or drink chocolate drinks? Humans also eat plently of things that are toxic. Most spicy peppers are toxic if eaten in the quantities needed to induce by other substances in rats. So is vinegar, wine, cheese, pickles, ... Ever heard of that super toxic dihydrogen oxide. About 360,000 people die every year from it, some with as little 120grams (1/2 a cup)