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A few generations ago many of our brightest minds were building doomsday weapons to incinerate all life on Earth, so maybe this is progress.
by api 4y ago
A few generations ago many of our brightest minds were building doomsday weapons to incinerate all life on Earth, so maybe this is progress.
- SQueeeeeL 4y agoProbably not, if you shoot a man, there's a perpetrator and an end. If you brainwash a man, forever his actions will no longer be fully his own. Plus most people view violence as something undesirable (see Vietnam war protests), but advertising still has many hawks who will never stop singing it's praises while all public spaces are consumed by corporate branding until we have no where uninfected
- appletrotter 4y ago> if you shoot a man, there's a perpetrator and an end I don’t know about this assertion. It does not ring true to real life for me.
- thih9 4y agoI'd say the state of "forever his actions will no longer be fully his own" is easier to reach with doomsday weapons than with ads.
- dryd 4y agoIs the claim here that working in the advertising industry is worse than working on “doomsday devices to incinerate all life on Earth”? What a hot take!
- goatcode 4y agoIs it? Would you rather be dead or a zombie?
- lghh 4y agoWould I rather be dead or use TikTok? Come on now, you know the answer to that.
- TobyTheDog123 4y agoDead. "Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees" as they say.
- paxys 4y agoI'd rather have the choice to do whatever I want with my life instead of a bomb dropped on my head.
- TheCoelacanth 4y agoNuclear weapons have killed about ~200k people in all of history. Advertising probably kills that many people most months when you consider things like: * Convincing people that various groups needs to be genocided * Convincing people to use cars instead of less dangerous methods of transportation * Convincing people to use fossil fuels instead of less polluting forms of energy * Convincing people to eat unhealthy foods * Convincing people to smoke cigarettes I'm not convinced that advertising is less dangerous than nuclear weapons.
- api 4y ago> Nuclear weapons have killed about ~200k people in all of history. So far. Present performance is not indicative of future returns. All it will take is one nut job (who could still be Putin depending on how this turns out) escalating to even a "regional" nuclear war to add a zero or two to that number, and it could happen very quickly.