Interesting Project.

[ACADEMIC]

Uh-oh, folks.

Sounds like Menno's been caught up in the system.

Defendin' those advertisers, eh?

Tsk-tsk.

 

[MrJim]

...yer a riot

 

[ACADEMIC]

I once talked to a "marketing" major while I was in college. He was in the throws of a final major project before graduation. He had to put together a major advertising campaign for a fictional product or service.

I was feeling wry that day and asked him, "So, how do you feel about having majored in propaganda techniques to manipulate people to do what they otherwise would not do?"



Needless to say, he wasn't pleased that I had so roundly affronted the past four years of his life. So he launched into some contorted defense. That was instructive all by itself.

 

[catlover]

I once talked to a "marketing" major while I was in college. He was in the throws of a final major project. He had to put together a major advertising campaign for a fictional product or service.

I was feeling wry that day and asked him, "So, how do you feel about majoring in propaganda techniques to manipulate people to do what they otherwise would not do?"



Needless to say, he wasn't pleased, and launched into some contorted defense. That was instructive all by itself.

Marketing is pretty sinister. It is made to grab our attention, quickly.

To top it off, marketing is designed in a way that if we don't buy whatever is being advertised we are somehow less than a person....

Look at America, look how the homeless are viewed. They are viewed with disdain not with pity. It's because our society is a consumer driven society. If you don't have the means to buy, buy, buy, somehow you are bad.

 

[MrJim]

HA Josef Goebbels would have been a Madison Avenue genius...

 

[ACADEMIC]

I made some CF Quizzes a while back on propaganda and advertising techniques. Ya'll might enjoy them and get some "blessings" besides.

Propaganda Techniques

Advertising Techniques Part 1

Advertising Techniques Part 2

 

[ZiSunka]

I know people who would justify owning a lot of stuff because they identify themselves by what they own. The subscribe to the philosophy that the more you own, the more you are.

 

[CelticRose]

I don't think that he who dies with the most toys wins.

Being able to say no is always a very powerful position to be in.

 

[catlover]

I made some CF Quizzes a while back on propaganda and advertising techniques. Ya'll might enjoy them and get some "blessings" besides.

Propaganda Techniques

Advertising Techniques Part 1

Advertising Techniques Part 2

thank-you!