Commercial Advertising and You

Discussion in 'The Media' started by EventHorizon, Dec 26, 2013.

  1. Karen_J

    Karen_J Visitor

    Only the technology has changed in modern times. Walk through an open air market 6000 years ago, and some of the merchants would give you a sales pitch. It's a form of free speech.

    If you have a product or service to sell, it's natural for you to want people to know about it. It's only bad when the system is abused, or when people become so stupid that they'll fall for anything.
     
  2. Joker8six

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    Phillip Morris and R.J. Reynolds kill every single pack
    McDonald's sues London Greenpeace for presenting the public with the facts
    Disney expands its international market with help from the CIA
    Coors uses consumer support to help finance the KKK
    Ending oil protests with executions Nigeria belongs to Shell
    Pepsi dealt with the oppressive regimes in the Phillipines to build another Taco Bell
    General Motos creates competition with their "whipsawing" tactics role
    Dupont alone is responsible for four percent of the ozone layer hole
    Public opinion lobotomized
    Civilized bloodbath
    Smoke screen security
    Civilized bloodbath
    Populations prioritized
    Civilized bloodbath
    Third-world trophy
    Civilized bloodbath
    Texaco's diseased people of the Amazon and Indonesia
    Vivisections performed by Gillette and Unilever
    Walmart moves in to monopolize and rape communities
    Nestle is responsible for third-world deaths from baby bottle disease
    Johnson and Johnson's anti-diarrhea-drops killed children in Pakistan
    Chinese immigrant slave labor make Levis Dockers in Saipan
    The FDA has approved irridating food for Vindicator
    Forests are clearcut by Mirsubishi, Maxxam, and Stone Container
    Civilized bloodbath
    Civilized bloodbath
    Civilized bloodbath
    Civilized bloodbath
    We all like to point the finger at the faceless company
    But the corporation machine consists of people like you and me
    By existing in this society we all share the guilt
    We're all responsible for the misery the multinationals have built
    We all add to the list of victims the companies compile
    By believing any of us are innocent we're living in denial
    We are all a part of the problem no matter how hard we try
    We help to create these conditions with everything we buy
    Public opinion lobotomized
    Civilized bloodbath
    Smoke screen security
    Civilized bloodbath
    Populations prioritized
    Civilized bloodbath
    Third-world trophy
    Civilized bloodbath
    The self-riteousness of judgement is something that no human being
    has the luxury to pass. Every single one of us survive at the expense
    of other living things. Although our very existence contradicts our
    effects our struggle is still relevant in relieving the burdens that
    we create, but our involvment is based on individual beliefs and
    ambitions. Hope needs to be nurtured, compassion and understanding
    will not grow out of scrutiny. Encouragement and tolerance is the
    only way that activism will evolve from indifference.
    (This was your life)
    Conditioning is simple and you keep it that way
    Ignorance is bliss when you stay stale and stagnant
    Too old to care and too little to matter
    Anarchy is now 9 to 5, wallet's a bit fatter
    Once full of piss and vinegar now full of shit and dope
    Freedom isn't easy I guess you couldn't cope
    You gave into the pressure someone greased your hand
    Just remain passive it's the safest place to stand
    So to your feelings stay immune
    And the bullshit they feed you, continue to consume
    Consume
    We've got ways of keeping you in line
    Keeping you numb, dumb, and weak
    Things to keep your mind off of us
    So intimidated that you dare not speak
    You fucking know that we police the street
    We know who to watch, we know how to beat
    We know what you do and where you go
    We'll dress like you and go to your shows
    To sell you the shit that destroys your brain
    That you snort up your nose or shoot in your vein
    We'll start a riot at your police brutality benefit
    And keep it from spreading contain the threat
    Until you destroy yoursevles, defeat yourselves,
    Burn yourselves and kill yourselves
    We'll put a McDonald's on every street
    That's where you'll work, that's where you'll eat
    For minimum wage, for student wage
    For poverty and malnutrition
    And we'll stock your grocery store shelves full of shit
    And keep it open for a couple of years before we torch it
    That's simply the way it's going to be so get used to it
    Get used to it if you're going to take our shit
    So don't try to protest or organize
    Because we're too fucking strong, don't you realize
    That we keep you fighting amongst yourselves, we keep you seperate
    And without unity you'll be no threat
    We keep pointing the finger at you and you
    Never really knowing who turns the screw
    And now you're trapped like a rat on a sinking ship
    And it's sinking fast so get used to it
    Get used to it you're going to take our shit
    All you'll get is what we'll fucking let
    Your college campus with your liberal views
    An education or your head in a noose
    And after you graduate where will you go
    You'll have nowhere to live and nothing to show
    Come put on a suit and come work for us
    You'll become everything you hate and all you disgust
    You'll forget who you were, what you did, and what you stood for
    You'll be trapped in your office
    You'll be trapped in traffic
    You'll be trapped in your home
    You'll be trapped in your church
    You'll be trapped in your mind
    Trapped like rats on the same sinking ship
    Trapped again and getting used to it
    And when you grow old with your husband or with your wife
    You'll be used to it, you'll be used to it
    And to think that your whole fucking life
    You took our shit
    Capitalism is responsible for the lifestyle you've enjoyed
    Who cares about the people slain be thankful you're employed
    It's not about comsumer choice, it's not about convenience
    It's not about the billions made, it's all about indifference
    So lay your trust upon us it's your quality of life we'll enhance
    Realize the benefits and the fact that without us you don't stand a chance
    We've built dependence upon a structure that you have to trust
    So if you try to destory our system we're going to take you with us
    The public relations industry studies our every move
    Constantly advising corporations how they can improve
    Their profits, their monopolies, their uncompromising growth
    And how to beed the consumer for everything they're worth
    Their wealth exists off of our labor and our willingness to consume
    Manipulated by every medium the public just assume
    That their innocent, unbiased forums exist solely to entertain
    While the industries we work for are just out to reclaim
    The wages they've paid us to produce the markets demands
    Every cent we've ever earned makes it back into their hands
    Enhancing their wealth, enhancing their claim, achieving their domination
    Maintaining their power, maintaining their reign, they're gaining from exploitaton
    Sacrificing humanity for the good of industry
    Is the fault the result of them or our own stupidity
    Do they possess that much influence over everything we do
    Are the consequences of our actions ever really thought through
    Do we truly understand how one person can make a difference
    By developing individual thought free from outside interference
    Our own struggle for survival comples us to drop it
    Should our compassion be cashed in for profit
    When you are the victim of your government's attack
    It should only be natural to want to fight back
    But when they've relentlessly progammed you your entire existence
    We tried to make a difference but what have we actually achieved
    Have we put up any obstacles or just helped them to succeed
    Have we constructed any bridges or just built another wall
    Have our beliefs and our ideals accomplished anything at all
    Have we ever caused our leaders to change a single thing
    Have we ever been a threat or just puppets on a string
    Have we wasted all of our time painting pictures for the blind
    While we've created isolation have we changed a single mind
    Have we had enought sense to learn from our mistakes
    Are we prepared for personal sacrifices no matter what it takes
    Are we willing to work together putting differences aside
    Or is compormise too much to rish damaging our pride
    Do we have enough hope to still find trust in someone else
    Do we have the compassion to fight the problems that don't directly affect ourselves
    Have we ever stood a chance or have our efforts been naive
    Have we bought into their lies of what they tell us to believe
    It still is your option what path to choose
    Don't let the only change yo make be in your views
    Like if you can't fight everything why bother to try
    You can learn from the hypocracies you used to deny
    Is it all a charade or do you actually mean it
    Do your ideals only surface when it's politically convenient
    You're stuck in society's trap and although you're tryin to cope
    If you can't change yourself, you'll lose more than just hope
    So the next time you're down on your knees just remember
    The plight of the oppressed ends with the oppressor
    And if it's easier for you to live under that oppr
     
  3. WOLF ANGEL

    WOLF ANGEL Senior Member - A Fool on the Hill Lifetime Supporter

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    Modern society has embraced it, and become a part of daily life.
    Do I pay heed to it? - Human nature means we all do, although it is the degree of interest in the subject matter that makes the difference in belief - I have found
     
  4. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    Not just modern humans who've been subject to commercials. It goes WAY, WAY back in our evolutionary history...

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  5. Spectacles

    Spectacles My life is a tapestry Lifetime Supporter

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  6. Vanilla Gorilla

    Vanilla Gorilla Go Ape

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    Dont think I've ever seen an ad for this stuff

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    I've always found it curious, as it has a secret formula like coke, but without all the blanket advertising

    And yet every BBQ, half the time this brand is on the table

    First example I thought of, of a brand that needs no advertising
     
  7. BlackBillBlake

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    I love it!

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  8. Piney

    Piney Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    I feel the effect of long ago advertising. all of the beer commercials, the cigarettes, gasoline brands, Fast Food. no way to tune it out completely. Remembering banks that are long gone, merged somewhere else.

    All of the companies sponsoring the sports teams. The color scheme of the advertisers. Remembering Michael Jackson with Pepsi Cola. Remembering the Kodak commercials. The I love New York commercials. "Where's the beef?" Flame Broiled or Fryed?

    We have had plenty of political commercials through the years.

    Remembering Oliver Wendell Douglas drove a Lincoln and Wilbur drove a Studebaker. And Tennessee Jed banked at The First Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills, CA.
     
  9. EventHorizon

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    Been awhile since i posted this thread, still feel pretty much the same way.

    I just mute it if its not on my show or whatever. I wish i could tell them "Hey. I mute every fucking thing you try to shove down my throat. Give it up."

    I digress.
     
  10. dopestats

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    @Gypsy is right. When I had my first child, all of a sudden it seemed services and goods became so much more relevant everywhere we were. For example, a week or two after we got back home from the hospital the non-profit Children International came knocking on my door, stating they would be helping children from countries where I was from (Dominican Republic & India). The young girl at my doorstep that day had a tablet on which she took my information to sign me up. They must've had geo-targeted the area, and furthermore known I'd just had a baby somehow. Having just entered fatherhood, they sure picked a convenient time to solicit me. Also the alarm company came by around the same time. I had already been considering adding one, but it was mostly a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) alarm system we could get third-party monitoring for, but guess what? A salesmen shows up before I could setup my own system and talks me into it because I let on we were considering it already anways... Now watching TV I notice a lot more commercials tailored for kids. ABCMouse.com or similar commercials. These companies know so much about us...
     
  11. Berry88

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    I usually try not to pay too much attention to the advertising that is everywhere nowadays...
     

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