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Fascism in Advertising
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Seems to me that especially TV ads are actually getting worse. Synchronicity? This one is dripping with fascist themes.

"We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false." --William J. Casey, D.C.I

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"We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false." --William J. Casey, D.C.I

"We will lead every revolution against us." --Theodore Herzl
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Lauren Johnson Wrote:Seems to me that especially TV ads are actually getting worse. Synchronicity? This one is dripping with fascist themes.


Amazingly he didn't drop the phrase 'Freedom Fries' in there.
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I have always found this ad disturbing? Strength through joy? The individual identity merging into the collective?

"We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false." --William J. Casey, D.C.I

"We will lead every revolution against us." --Theodore Herzl
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Lauren Johnson Wrote:I have always found this ad disturbing? Strength through joy? The individual identity merging into the collective?

They could have got that nifty robotic effect by just filming their young almost child workers in the Chinese factory making the product but I suppose they were not happy and joyful enough.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx

"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.

“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
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#6
This isn't an ad but it's Gaga and it is a dissociative experience -- which is what the other ads accomplish.

"We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false." --William J. Casey, D.C.I

"We will lead every revolution against us." --Theodore Herzl
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Magda Hassan Wrote:
Lauren Johnson Wrote:Seems to me that especially TV ads are actually getting worse. Synchronicity? This one is dripping with fascist themes.


Amazingly he didn't drop the phrase 'Freedom Fries' in there.

:Point::Point::Point:

The message is work hard, acquire stuff and don't think (subtext: make us, the ruling elite, ever more wealthy).
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
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