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As far as what's described in that passage, none of that looks too bad aside from the smart policing. Which everyone else seems to be getting too, anyway. The
by shantly 7y ago
As far as what's described in that passage, none of that looks too bad aside from the smart policing. Which everyone else seems to be getting too, anyway.
The next worst is the "civilizing banners" thing but then again public advertising exists and is everywhere, so, call it even.
- schoen 7y agoI find it interesting that Americans still tolerate advertising meant to influence behavior and civility (for example, public health ads or other kinds of public service announcements), but these ads now have to be much more subtle than they did in, say, World War II. https://adcouncil.org/Our-Campaigns https://adcouncil.org/Our-Campaigns https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_posters https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_pos... Somehow, contemporary ads aimed at influencing behavior and opinion elsewhere feel radically unsubtle and upsetting from a U.S. cultural point of view, but that doesn't mean that we've settled on the idea that nobody ought to do that at all.