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Ha, ha, wish I'd seen that... 
And because he's spent x amount of months in a comfy 'prison' cell he thinks he's in touch with modern society?
It was like 'Clash of the Titans' all over again, I tells ya 
I turned on the BBC Breakfast News last week, and one of the presenters was holding up a children's novel as a shining example of contemporary literature. The novel was 'written' by... wait for it... Jordan.
Unbelievable, isn't it? It seems as though the more immoral a celebrity is, the more worthy they become in the eyes of the media, and because the view of the general populace is through the window of the media, then we're supposed to take the same view as that of the media, and the majority do it with open arms. And it leads to this, Jordan writing a children's book. I wonder what lessons the kids will learn from her sparkling writing?
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What's more disturbing than the marketing itself is that there are people who are suckered into this whole marketing shtick.
That's the unfortunate predicament society is in now. People as consumers are so gullible, and that's why in-your-face marketing works. I'm a cynical person and I'm getting worse (much to the annoyance of my misses  ).
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Ha, ha, wish I'd seen that...
And because he's spent x amount of months in a comfy 'prison' cell he thinks he's in touch with modern society?
It was like 'Clash of the Titans' all over again, I tells ya
I turned on the BBC Breakfast News last week, and one of the presenters was holding up a children's novel as a shining example of contemporary literature. The novel was 'written' by... wait for it... Jordan.
Unbelievable, isn't it? It seems as though the more immoral a celebrity is, the more worthy they become in the eyes of the media, and because the view of the general populace is through the window of the media, then we're supposed to take the same view as that of the media, and the majority do it with open arms. And it leads to this, Jordan writing a children's book. I wonder what lessons the kids will learn from her sparkling writing?
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What's more disturbing than the marketing itself is that there are people who are suckered into this whole marketing shtick.
That's the unfortunate predicament society is in now. People as consumers are so gullible, and that's why in-your-face marketing works. I'm a cynical person and I'm getting worse (much to the annoyance of my misses ).
The dominance of the twin cultures of celebrity and aspiration is frightening; it's these twin cultures (not to mention the way they've been gradually filtering into education, via the ways in which industry has been making insidious inroads into schools and universities) that are responsible for turning people into passive consumers from an early age, which is why these unsubtle marketing strategies are so uncritically accepted--particularly by young people, who used to be a little more 'savvy' about the media and its strategies of manipulation.
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Philip K. ****'s books, and his vision of a world in which all aspects of human life have become dominated by media-generated spectacle, consumerism and corporate bureaucracy--which is passively accepted by the populace, and in which politics is dominated by consumer marketing strategies--seems to rapidly be coming true.
Did you read J. G. Ballard's last novel? It was frighteningly accurate in its exploration of the ways in which political power has been surpassed by the mob mentality of consumerism.
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And of course we now have complaints about the Army's marketing strategies invading schools.
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IIIII IIIII
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And of course we now have complaints about the Army's marketing strategies invading schools.
Yes, that's a very overt approach; industry tends to use a slightly more covert approach, accessing schools via sponsorship deals and such. Ten years ago, people were up in arms about this self-same issue; but nowadays, people seem strangely happy to accept it.
I guess that we're all 'good consumers' now, from a very early age.
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IIIII IIIII
Two thirds of the way there...
Shame there's nothing positive.
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And of course we now have complaints about the Army's marketing strategies invading schools.
Yes, that's a very overt approach; industry tends to use a slightly more covert approach, accessing schools via sponsorship deals and such. Ten years ago, people were up in arms about this self-same issue; but nowadays, people seem strangely happy to accept it.
I guess that we're all 'good consumers' now, from a very early age.
Yes, we queue up regularly in patient, well behaved lines and consciously hand over our money with a smile in return for something ridiculously expensive that we don't really need... or is that just me
I guess, in the end, it's a form of habit; if we're exposed to something for long enough we simply accept it.
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IIIII IIIII
Two thirds of the way there...
Shame there's nothing positive.
As you said before, I'm probably lucky that I'm getting do many replies.
This is what I'm telling myself.
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