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>The weird thing is we take it for granted instead of being repelled by it. Yes, exactly this right here. It was straight up bizarre to grow up with near 0 adv
by daddylongstroke 3y ago
>The weird thing is we take it for granted instead of being repelled by it.
Yes, exactly this right here. It was straight up bizarre to grow up with near 0 advertising in commie Eastern Europe and get hit with a shockwave of fairly disgusting ad bullshit when we moved to the US. I was shocked at people putting up with it as if it is something to be tolerated instead of burned to ashes. I continue to be shocked.
- JetSpiegel 3y agoI don't think is socially acceptable in the West to mention the good parts of the other side of the Iron Curtain. You must always mention the Stasi. Even though the Berlin wall came down 30 years ago, the End of History ethos remains.
- locopati 3y agoI mean, the Stasi was pretty bad. Soviet political prisons were pretty bad. I'll take advertising as the cost of doing business if that's the alternative.
- JetSpiegel 3y agoBut is it? Was the Stasi responsible for the lack of advertisements? I would argue it's completely orthogonal. You can selective adopt other cultural practices. Resistance to advertising does not imply mass surveillance, it's actually the opposite.