Frantisek, Advertising at it's most basic is a form of communications designed to inform people about products. It performs a very useful function in modern society.
Don't tell Paul his lifework is worthless. How would you feel if somebody said Physics is a load of crap and we could get along fine without any more of it (just keep engineers). What have quarks done for me lately? Perhaps the old communist societies had nothing to sell, no consumer products to offer the public, and thus didn't have much use for advertising. Remember there are people who are not bothered by advertising because they do not watch TV. (I find this difficult as you quickly become poorly informed about consumer things.) Regards, Bob S. Frantisek offered: PS> thinking about the message, but it sticks. It doesn't mean they're PS> stupid, it must means they absorb little bits of information on the PS> fly. That's how advertising works. It's not about presenting logical PS> arguments. That job falls to the press. Concept of Memes. Virus. I don't like any viruses in my mind. No thank you. PS> Fine. But advertising works for many consumers. Advertising is part of PS> what makes a free market economy function. It's part of how I earn my PS> living. I don't care if you don't like it. Nor do the majority of free PS> people in the world. Tightly regulated socialist and communist PS> societies prohibit advertising of goods and services. The freedoms that PS> are allowed by any society are a matter of choice, and it's a choice we PS> all have to make. Oh Paul, stop it. Since when are you the speaker for "the majority of free people in the world" ? Since when are people who don't like advertising are associated with socialist and communist totalities? I see the "freedoms" you offer us as totalitarian. What freedom at all? Damn, what choice do I have to turn of the adverts? There is less and less choice in that "free society" of yours. And if you'd label me as socialist, let me tell you, I come from a country which suffered 40 years under communism, we know totality very well, and we have sensitive noses for snuffing new forms of it. Others: sorry for the politics, but such self-assumed message makes me hot. If Paul hadn't pursued the topic of politics himself, I might not have boiled off.
