QatzelOk wrote:Let me tell you about my pompous self.
I worked in advertising as an art director for few years, but got out and retrained because I couldn't stand the office environment or the ethos of what I was doing.
I then went back to university to study, specifically, media and politics: that is, to study the effect that mass media and other texts have on the social distribution of resources in various societies.
Your dismissal of other people's studies and research in this area... is actually the Pompous Elephant in the Room.
If we are in fact brainwashed, as I believe we are, then one of the implanted memes is that "we are so free and unbrainwashed, unlike all the alternative systems that are out there."
How much mass media do they stare at in North Korea? (I know they don't have mandatory bike helmets there, which makes them probably less brainwashed than Aussies)
Well that is interesting, it seems when I said:
The villains of your ludicrous conspiracy theories are bumbling lower-middle class mediocrities. They are not monsters like Mao Zedong or Torquemada they are just ordinary plebs just like you.
It was bang on the mark in your case, as you were literally one of them.
Did you ever aspire to be an artist, movie director or similar way back before you found a proper job? It might explain why you are seeing these phantoms, you want to be special. Being an adman didn't really tickle that itch, it's a just a pleb job, no will remember you for it, no one will honour you for it, so you had to dress up the job in your mind with some imaginary powers to mold and shape people's minds like putty in your hand, you weren't some second rate media hack, you were something like a villain from a bond flick, a Doctor Mesmer, powerful and dangerous. Oh but then you just part of a gaggle of "mind controllers", still not very special despite your ruinous powers of ultimate evil, you needed more and what better way to get super special that turn aside from your life of crime and become a singular crusader to save humanity from the insidious threat of the mind snatchers.
Some questions to all:
Aside from your "theorising" have any of you ever actually purchased something under the influence of mind control? I assume you have your tinfoil hats to protect you now but before you discovered the Truth you were presumably as open to suggestion as anyone else. Did the pepsi ad shown previously cause you to become sexually aroused in the presence of drinks vending machines? Did you ever put new tyres on your car when it didn't need them just because you thought a Pirelli girl might find you sexy?
For those that are married or otherwise under the influence of womankind:
Is your
experience of the persuasive powers of advertising greater or lesser than the
experience of the persuasive powers of your wife/girlfriend/fuckbuddy?
For those that have tangled with officialdom:
Is your
experience of the persuasive powers of advertising greater or lesser than the
experience of the persuasive powers of officialdom ie: police, judges, local administrators?
For those that have had friends:
Is your
experience of the persuasive powers of advertising greater or lesser than the
experience of the persuasive powers of peer pressure?
For those that have children:
Is your
experience of the persuasive powers of advertising greater or lesser than the
experience of the persuasive powers of your own child/ren?
For those that have enjoyed recreational arts: movies, novels, poems, music:
Is your
experience of the persuasive powers of advertising greater or lesser than the
experience of the persuasive powers of a weepy flick, action movie, love song or gripping page turner?
For those that have dabbled in political activism:
Is your
experience of the persuasive powers of advertising greater or lesser than the
experience of the persuasive powers of a rabble rousers & demagogues?
Just for a bit of perspective.