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Showing posts with label hubris ancient and modern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hubris ancient and modern. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 December 2024

How Processed Would You Like Your Christmas To Be?

Because cheaper (and more processed) seasons of good will
are available on demand, if they prove to be less sincere
than they appear, then please accept this insincere apology
for the afore mentioned synthetic sincerity.

Sometimes being synthetic is as near as people can get
to being sincere.....  

 

Sunday, 14 October 2012

Leading People Away From Fact

Advertising is a form of creativity that aspires
to fool all the people all the time
(particularly state regulators)
through discursive arguments
that lead the viewer away
from the most important details
about the product being sold.
The more to make the whole of life
like the advert to consumer
-a fantasy product controlled by the advertiser.

In preliterate christian societies
the weekly speech that mattered most
was the sermon in the church before
the giving of the tithe, where the priest
had more power modern advertising now has.
Whether the priest knowingly lied
or not people would still give.
Their charity, like their community,
was as genuine as their heart's desire for life.
Where as the consumers misled by modern
advertising into conumerism
as an imitation of life are solely
conditioned by company profits.