Ok....random thought that is bugging me...again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKk6XWCo0Oo"]Psychic TV - JUST LIKE ARCADIA - YouTube

 

Someone linked me to this super-American commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGJSI48gkFc"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGJSI48gkFc

 

it is better to rid yourself of all political systems then the hypocricy and lunacy clearly show..

think about this. if they are using patriotism to sell pizza, their pizza must suck

 

Just wanted to say I am glad to see someone else point that out on this forum.
(the bold.)

 

im pretty sure they have fire fighters in other countries. its not an american thing its a HERO thing. hey look the hero is ok with this pizza and i like hero's so i must be ok with this pizza.

the ad people are going to go with whatever they feel is going to most get people to buy the product. and there are many ways to go about it. give great facts, have the viewer relate, get people to talk about the ad...and therefore the product. this ad did two of those things, first they got people to relate to one of the most respected occupations. then they got people to talk about it, and here we are talking about it.
i do know that there wasnt some talk in the design room about trying to brainwash people into agreeing with a NWO or to be more patriotic. the only brainwashing they were doing was to get you to think about their pizza clearly it worked so as bad as a commercial as it seems...it wasnt.

 

Patriotism, materialism, global competition, consumerism and basically telling us "If you just keep working harder maybe one day you can be like me" all in one ad.

I had a detailed response to some of these posts typed out and I accidentally deleted it. I'm not typing all that shit out again.

As far as whether tv and radio influence or reflect society.....I think both points are true depending on the scenario. But I'll leave you with this link. Decide for yourself what you think of it. I haven't really researched the matter much more yet but I'll say that I definitely remember when hip-hop changed and I often wondered how that music was even being made, why the rappers were openly claiming certain acts, who to record that stuff, etc. And I grew up in Chicago so it isn't like I grew up in some corn field with no exposure to different influences. But I am interested in what you guys think of the claims in the link.



http://www.hiphopisread.com/2012/04/secret-meeting-that-changed-rap-music.html

 

Patriotism = manipulation.

 

The car dealership commercials I remember around here were from Cal Worthington. A cowboy, a monkey in a western shirt, free bbq no purchase necessary, and a dog named Spot- doesn't get more american than that, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HJALwCNbco"]classic Cal Worthington & his dog Spot TV ad 1981 - YouTube

 

i remember 'spot' changing species from time to time.

 

who what? i'm over 65 but i don't currently have a phone. i don't really have that much desire to be in any social loop to be worth the cost and hassle of owning one.

also the only cp i know anything about is the canadian pacific railroad up in canada. why should i want to call them and about what?

 

That made me cringe. The guy in the commercial was right that such a commercial can only work in America and that other countries laugh about such an attitude. Make a commercial over here to tell people to give up their holidays and free days for a car and they would laugh in your face so hard your ears would still be ringing 6 months later and call you fucking insane.
A sales drop would be guaranteed.

And the name dropping? Are they implying that only in America there are succesful people?

All in all, pretty entertaining for satire.

 

i don't know, when i used to work at a pizza place the people in the ghetto used to debate the deliveries constantly.

"ya'll only got robbed the last 12 times you came to this street! and now you won't deliver here after dark? that's racist!"

"it took you 32 minutes to get here after the person on the phone told me it would be an hour? that means my pizza's free since it was over 30 minutes, even though no pizza place has had that guarantee in over 10 years!"

and so on.

 

Society at large, like an unapprehended criminal.

 

The claims in the story are not surprising but that sort of plotting and planning is much, much older and wide spread than the music industry.

psychiatry is the biggest fraud on the planet right now. With the arrival of prozac in the 80's, both diagnosis and prescribing have SKYROCKETED. psychiatry is said to be a 300 billion dollar per year industry (and that quote is a few years old). At one point in the past few decades, it became almost socially "cool" to be taking some sort of anti-depressant. The government has the ability (but not the right or power) to FORCE drug people against their will. psychiatry is not science and is not a branch of medicine. It is a branch of military government and is a social control.

It will take me some time to dig up the links but there's at least two cases of government plotting against citizens, in the past century .. specifically, judges who profited from incarcerating youth and (this is revolting) a private network of top level judges who created an organization, which began in the late 1800's, for securing wards of the state. The organization still exists today and is located in New England.

 

To answer the OP question, I don't notice it, because we don't watch television. At the risk of sounding like a pretentious asshole, it's amazing how little you care about trivial shit and media bullshit when you just choose to not subject yourself to it.

One could argue that it's the equivalent of sticking one's head in the sand, but I don't feel this is the case. Sand is stable ground to walk on. American media is a bunch of unstable bullshit that crumbles easily under rational thinking.