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Patronizing Patrons Outside Your Own Community vs. Being a Patron Inside Your Own Community
One of my good friends (the kind that actually try to push back on the kinds of things I often say) has been hammering away for some time at my attitude – sort of calling it patronizing. I beg to … Continue reading
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Automatism + Automaticity – 20th Century
If you thought my previous introduction was dark, then if you use your imagination a little to color in the details of what comes next, then you may actually begin to lose your faith in humanity – but I choose … Continue reading
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The Continued Toleration of Illiteracy
I have written about the widespread pandemic of illiteracy for many years, and I find it odd that there has continued to be an attitude of toleration to the phenomenon – even among people who I consider to be quite … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, illiteracy, intemperance, literacy, propaganda, retard media, temperance, tolerance, tolerant, tolerate, toleration
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It’s Not What You Think It Is
My friend Jean Russell shared a really fascinating meme the other day on facebook. The main gist of the idea was that “you are what you think”… such that rather than “I am what you think I am”, in fact … Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertising, deconstruct, deconstruction, internet, media, media deconstruction, propaganda, retard media, site, sites, television, tv, web, website, websites, World-Wide Web
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What are you going to do about it?
I have a friend who works in the field of healthcare, and we were talking about corruption in the medical and pharmaceutical industries – the kind that leads to patients getting misdiagnosed and mistreated. I had shared something I had … Continue reading
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The Rationality of Buzz
It’s early on a Monday morning – I would say “bright and early”, but it’s so early that the sun is still nowhere in sight. At any rate, the week is about to begin and so I figure it’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertisement, advertisements, advertising, buzz, conditioning, consumer, consumers, fact, facts, habit, habits, history, internet, literacy, media, news, news publisher, news publishers, Pavlov, printing press, propaganda, psychology, publish, published, publisher, publishers, publishing, retard media, technology
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Dot Com Domain Names are Almost All Brands
While it is true that nearly all dot com domain names are brands, this does not mean that all brands must be dot com domain names. I would not advise against choosing a dot com domain name for a brand, … Continue reading
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