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"Porn can sell anything. Porn plus an ad on the corner of every block can sell tits ... err I mean ICE to Eskimos..." The Term for Today is: MEDIA SATURATION In the new concrete jungle, turf wars are fought between corporations. The spray paint tags are gone. In their place, gangsters from Madison Avenue tag every empty space with advertisements. No matter where your eye wanders, it can't escape their visual pollution. The environment in your mind is being polluted every day by the harmful matter of commercial exploitation. Advertising is no longer a business of introducing potential consumers to goods and services. It's been transformed into a business that attempts to squeeze its way into your every waking moment and permeate your subconscious mind by keeping their images fixed in front of your eyes, and filling your ears with corporate slogans ALL THE TIME until it's absolutely impossible to not have opinions about their products. They want INSIDE. They want to stay in your thoughts long enough and often enough to alter how you think, what you value, and most importantly, what you do with your money. Their whole industry thrives on changing things that you don't think about into things that you feel that you can't live without. They have a lot more money than you do, but it's your money they need to keep them wealthy, and you give it to them. Whether you give it of your own free will is debatable. They know your pleasure centers. They know how to coddle your ego. They know how to transform a simple pair of overpriced plastic shoes into something that, regardless of cost, you desire regardless of your financial means, and know how to train your peers to covet them. They turn a trip to a crappy fast food restaurant into an amusement park ride, and paint your banker as caring about your wellbeing more than your grandparents do. They want to train you to think that three months salary is a reasonable price for a trinket. They want to train you to associate a new sportscar with freedom, even though you'll need to work a second job to afford it. You're being trained like one of Pavlov's dogs to want what they tell you to want, using the same means he used: repetition... repetition... repetition... Ding! Ding! Ding! Drool. This is funny as hell... ;) http://www.negativepositive.org/pavlov.html
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