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Blaming "Big brands" for what could also be concerted effort by the owners of these "Big brands" and their friends to affect control over political speech. Bla
by eternalban 7y ago
Blaming "Big brands" for what could also be concerted effort by the owners of these "Big brands" and their friends to affect control over political speech.
Blaming advertising gets tiresome. It is a device, not the cause, of "dumbing down" of Western discourse and curtailing of free political speech.
If you insist that it is "advertising" that is the cause of this malaise, then you must agree that "advertising" is not compatible with modern free democtratic societies and needs to be made illegal.
- Sessions 7y agoIf you insist that it is 'advertising' that is the cause of this malaise, then you must agree that 'advertising' is not compatible with modern free democtratic societies and needs to be made illegal That's a leap. A quote that's always stuck with me: "It's important to recognise one of the catastrophist's rhetorical moves: Stories of doom thrive on turning a tension into an incompatibility." It's more useful to think of the conversation we're having as the ongoing negotiation of a long-standing tension, with social media providing a new wrinkle.