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Unless you're product is air, water or food, chances are good that what one desire is just a manufactured impulse of society, that is mostly driven by advertis

Unless you're product is air, water or food, chances are good that what one desire is just a manufactured impulse of society, that is mostly driven by advertisement mafia these days. It might be less awful than fear of eternal burn in hell propaganda by former wannabe world masters, to be fair. Still unless we don't all get the same actual consideration in term of dignity, mutual respect, life insensitives and encouragements to continuously improve our cultural, social and economical consolidations and flourishing, buying the propaganda will remind acceptance of pretending to be blind on the ugly part of the deal, whatever side we fall into.

the_mitsuhiko 2y ago
> Unless you're product is air, water or food, chances are good that what one desire is just a manufactured impulse of society That does not matter. I desire going to the cinema with my kids, I desire riding a bike, I desire a car for my family. It's irrelevant that these feelings are instilled through marketing: they are genuine feelings. I internalized that this is something I desire and I will look for someone who provides me with that. When I go to the cinema I leave happy, I do not think about that someone ripped me off. I could never have made that movie myself.
- AyyEye 2y ago
  My new cinema company pumps aerosolized nicotine through the ventilation system to help induce desire. I (and my investors) are glad we were able to provide your desires for your """genuine feelings""". And I get money. Win/win.
RHSeeger 2y ago
I buy plenty of things that aren't advertised to me. From the services of folks to do things I don't want to do, to the constructions of things that I don't know how to build, to simple things like medicines that keep me from being dead. I also buy some times that are advertised to me, but they are _far_ smaller in value than the things from the previous group.
- psychoslave 2y ago
  Not everything that falls under manufactured impulse of society is advertising, right, although one can suspect that advertisements often goes far beyond what is clearly branded as advertisements. When you see a Mac in a movie, it's already blurring the lines though most people might agree that it is product placement and actually there's sometimes warning about this before the movie start so I guess there are some laws about it at least in some countries. When a super cool badass character smokes in a way that is clearly visually esthetically refined, even if no mark is either mentioned, this is still invitation to buy cigarettes. And this is not a fictional case here, it's well known that the guy who wrote the book "propaganda" later worked for the smoke industry. It's also well known that cigarettes have bad effects on people health.

the_mitsuhiko 2y ago

> Unless you're product is air, water or food, chances are good that what one desire is just a manufactured impulse of society That does not matter. I desire going to the cinema with my kids, I desire riding a bike, I desire a car for my family. It's irrelevant that these feelings are instilled through marketing: they are genuine feelings. I internalized that this is something I desire and I will look for someone who provides me with that. When I go to the cinema I leave happy, I do not think about that someone ripped me off. I could never have made that movie myself.

AyyEye 2y ago
My new cinema company pumps aerosolized nicotine through the ventilation system to help induce desire. I (and my investors) are glad we were able to provide your desires for your """genuine feelings""". And I get money. Win/win.

RHSeeger 2y ago

I buy plenty of things that aren't advertised to me. From the services of folks to do things I don't want to do, to the constructions of things that I don't know how to build, to simple things like medicines that keep me from being dead. I also buy some times that are advertised to me, but they are _far_ smaller in value than the things from the previous group.

psychoslave 2y ago
Not everything that falls under manufactured impulse of society is advertising, right, although one can suspect that advertisements often goes far beyond what is clearly branded as advertisements. When you see a Mac in a movie, it's already blurring the lines though most people might agree that it is product placement and actually there's sometimes warning about this before the movie start so I guess there are some laws about it at least in some countries. When a super cool badass character smokes in a way that is clearly visually esthetically refined, even if no mark is either mentioned, this is still invitation to buy cigarettes. And this is not a fictional case here, it's well known that the guy who wrote the book "propaganda" later worked for the smoke industry. It's also well known that cigarettes have bad effects on people health.