Comments on: i want you to understand (in defense of advertising) http://myironicmustache.com/2009/11/25/i-want-you-to-understand-in-defense-of-advertising/ hey internets! i have opinions about things! Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:26:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: rusty http://myironicmustache.com/2009/11/25/i-want-you-to-understand-in-defense-of-advertising/#comment-554 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:26:25 +0000 http://myironicmustache.com/?p=824#comment-554 i never really thought that it was controversial or unrecognised that advertising, at its base, is simply another form of communication. nor would any average person have problems admitting that good literature exploits your emotions. rather, it is the nature of the manipulation that is problematic.

here is one form of manipulation, which claims give you the ideal smile (google recently approved a ban of these ads from its network):
http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/imgad?id=CNaFtqqx-JXIchCsAhjvATIIfEjscUZszM8

and another kind of manipulation, meant to communicate the ideal soul:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moby-Dick/Chapter_23

]]> By: joethecabdriver http://myironicmustache.com/2009/11/25/i-want-you-to-understand-in-defense-of-advertising/#comment-553 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:30:03 +0000 http://myironicmustache.com/?p=824#comment-553 My main problem with advertising is that is it so pervasive and hard to get away from. We are pummeled with it. If you do not want to hear a joke, you can either turn off the TV or radio, or walk away from the person telling it. With advertising, that is much harder. They advertise on friggin’ cornflakes now. Not only do you have to endure the … See Morepropaganda on the cereal box, but now you must endure a big K as you peer down in your bowl. maybe it’s not nationwide yet but its a good example of how pervasively it is creeps into our lives. I personally abstain from as much advertising as humanly possible. I can do that with all other forms of media with relative ease but with advertising it is much harder.

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