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If you google Paris and you get an ad for a hotel, that isn't brainwashing. It's fun to be radical but let's stay grounded here.
by im3w1l 3y ago
If you google Paris and you get an ad for a hotel, that isn't brainwashing. It's fun to be radical but let's stay grounded here.
- Timon3 3y agoCome on, we all know that marketing goes further than that. Very simple example to disprove your thought-ending comment: I am a hypothetical gun shop owner and want to increase sales, so I put up ads that talk about the need to defend against high crime rates onto any search that might be related to the local area, anything about security, anything for new renters and owners. Without telling people that the area has a high crime rate, people will start to believe that it does, and that they need to protect themselves.
- madaxe_again 3y agoAh, but if you Google Paris in the first place, that is an outcome of marketing - which is for all intents and purposes brainwashing. Bernays, who invented modern advertising, said as much himself in “Propaganda”. So: Why google Paris? Why even Paris as an example? Hell - why Paris, period? Examine your answer carefully, and you’ll see the non-sequiturs in our reality that we usually happily ignore.
- im3w1l 3y agoInstead of answering your question, I will answer a related question. "Did you pick Paris as an example because of FAANG advertisements?", as FAANG ads was the original topic here. And the answer to that is no.