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There's an ad in rotation right now on a popular local radio station where the whole bit is that character A's car isn't working, and character B talks about th
by UtopiaPunk 3y ago
There's an ad in rotation right now on a popular local radio station where the whole bit is that character A's car isn't working, and character B talks about the great deals at a specific car dealership. "Don't walk," he exclaims and he shares the gospel of car ownership.
Literally, the whole framing is that walking sucks and is embarrassing :(
- closeparen 3y agoIn the vast majority of American postwar development, walking does suck and is embarrassing. That’s why the article’s framing about dignity for pedestrians in street design is interesting.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoIt's like idiocracy where they say something like "you drink water? like water, that you use to flush the toilet?". People are easily manipulated because they want to signal that they're valuable and/or rich; "walking is for poor people" ... well yes, also people who want to stay fit, or who care about the environment, or want to be closer to their community, or ...
- ta1243 3y agoIf you're walking there are fewer opportunities to advertise to you
- OfSanguineFire 3y ago> If you're walking there are fewer opportunities to advertise to you How so? I’m reminded of that sequence of shots in Zabriskie Point where Mark Frechette walks around Los Angeles and is assailed by billboards everywhere around him.
- pxeger1 3y agoPerhaps GP meant that you can't fruitfully have cars advertised to you if you don't want to buy one
- rufus_foreman 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmXn01PbAss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmXn01PbAss Hey! Don't settle for walking.