“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Aside from our essentially frivolous, naturally perverse, pleasure-seeking, gullible, highly-suggestible, sin-loving, responsibility-shirking, self-destructive Human Nature, we can thank the evil genius EDDIE BERNAYS for this. The thoroughly amoral, unprincpled, utterly self-serving, ruthlessly exploitative Bernays was the Father of Modern Advertising –– one of the great Master Manipulators of all time. He made P.T. Barnum look like a Presbyterian Sunday School Teacher in comparison.
I know we're not supposed to notice much less mention it, but Eddie Bernays just happend to be JEWISH –– as was Karl Marx..
Did you do this before my commercials post? GREAT MINDS!? :-) I loved the whole smoking thing...and I believe that smoke filled rooms in Congress are highly underrated; people smoked and talked and hammered things out without media glare. French cafes were smokey...it was part of the atmosphere I loved. They're not anymore. See, I fell for the whole thing :-)
My parents were smokers, too. They both quit in the late 60's when the culture turned around and began to discourage the practice.
I was never much of a smoker, although I can and do enjoy the "occasional" cigar.
I'm sure that the obesity epidemic today is a direct result of this sort of "cultural manipulation". We have yet to come out with a "calorie-free" food that "tastes good" to beat tobacco. Although I am tempted to begin "vaping".
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Aside from our essentially frivolous, naturally perverse, pleasure-seeking, gullible, highly-suggestible, sin-loving, responsibility-shirking, self-destructive Human Nature, we can thank the evil genius EDDIE BERNAYS for this. The thoroughly amoral, unprincpled, utterly self-serving, ruthlessly exploitative Bernays was the Father of Modern Advertising –– one of the great Master Manipulators of all time. He made P.T. Barnum look like a Presbyterian Sunday School Teacher in comparison.
I know we're not supposed to notice much less mention it, but Eddie Bernays just happend to be JEWISH –– as was Karl Marx..
Ding-a-ling! Ding-a-ling! Ding-a-ling! Ding-a-ling! Ding-a-ling! Ding-a-ling!
There goes that damnble TOCSIN yet again.
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Did you do this before my commercials post? GREAT MINDS!? :-)
I loved the whole smoking thing...and I believe that smoke filled rooms in Congress are highly underrated; people smoked and talked and hammered things out without media glare.
French cafes were smokey...it was part of the atmosphere I loved. They're not anymore.
See, I fell for the whole thing :-)
@Z
My parents were smokers, too. They both quit in the late 60's when the culture turned around and began to discourage the practice.
I was never much of a smoker, although I can and do enjoy the "occasional" cigar.
I'm sure that the obesity epidemic today is a direct result of this sort of "cultural manipulation". We have yet to come out with a "calorie-free" food that "tastes good" to beat tobacco. Although I am tempted to begin "vaping".
The history of smoking and advertising is quite interesting. Marketing a Bohemian brand of cool...
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