PS> thinking about the message, but it sticks. It doesn't mean they're
PS> stupid, it must means they absorb little bits of information on the
PS> fly. That's how advertising works. It's not about presenting logical
PS> arguments. That job falls to the press.
Concept of Memes. Virus. I don't like any viruses in my mind. No thank
you.
PS> Fine. But advertising works for many consumers. Advertising is part of
PS> what makes a free market economy function. It's part of how I earn my
PS> living. I don't care if you don't like it. Nor do the majority of free
PS> people in the world. Tightly regulated socialist and communist
PS> societies prohibit advertising of goods and services. The freedoms that
PS> are allowed by any society are a matter of choice, and it's a choice we
PS> all have to make.
Oh Paul, stop it. Since when are you the speaker for "the majority of free
people in the world" ? Since when are people who don't like
advertising are associated with socialist and communist totalities?
I see the "freedoms" you offer us as totalitarian. What freedom at
all? Damn, what choice do I have to turn of the adverts? There is less
and less choice in that "free society" of yours. And if you'd label me
as socialist, let me tell you, I come from a country which suffered 40
years under communism, we know totality very well, and we have
sensitive noses for snuffing new forms of it.
Others: sorry for the politics, but such self-assumed message makes me
hot. If Paul hadn't pursued the topic of politics himself, I might not
have boiled off.
Good light!
fra
