At 4:52 PM -0800 11/11/03, joanna bujes wrote:
No, I'm arguing, that advertising isn't netural; I'm arguing that
its rhetoric has an implicit message, that this implicit message is
a form of brainwashing, and that a free society should not promote
brainwashing.
Advertising isn't neutral but partisa
Yoshie:
Advertisements, like markets, existed in many civilizations long
before the emergence of capitalism. For instance, archeologists have
found signs advertising taverns and the like in ancient Rome
This makes perfect sense given the state of Imperial America. Next we will
be feeding Marxists
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields,
Sold in a market down in Washington
Slaverdriver knows he's doin' alright.
Hear him whip the women just around midnight.
Ahhh... Brown Sugar how come you taste so good
(A - ha) Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should
A - huh.
Drums beating, cold En
At 6:35 PM -0500 11/11/03, Louis Proyect wrote:
I don't see what the problem is here. Marx believed that
consumerism could serve a progressive purpose -- he even thought
that newpapers would elevate workers. He never read our own local
rag.
You also have to keep in mind that there was no such thi
