No.985
I recently watched this documentary, and two aspects of it came to my attention as things that this board might like to discuss.
The first thing I got from this was a repugnance towards the whole marketing/advertising industry. Primarily for targeting small children and using the parent's natural instincts of wanting what is best for them in order to fool them into buying not only unnecessary but often harmful things.
Using appeals to emotion and techniques of psychological manipulation in order to condition toddlers to consume seems abhorrent to me. As I ground this over, I realized that advertising in general doesn't seem ethical: instead of making available the technical data about the product that would allow the consumer to pick according to price range and quality, advertising uses persuasion tactics to appeal to the involuntary part of the mind and override reason and logic. Is advertising in general immoral?
A second topic I only noticed a few hours later was the fact that the documentary managed to elicit an emotional response from me. I felt attachment to the children on the screen and anger towards those that did them harm. This stems from the nearly-universal instincts we have towards our young, but something about this work in particular seemed quite effective in exploiting that. How do filmmakers maximize this effect?
Personally, I found the part where the children talk about what they want to be when they grow up very touching. Perhaps I associate it with a sense of purity that serves to contrast even more strongly with the apparent corruption/degradation of marketing. I wonder if any of you will get similar responses.
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No.986
Yes, advertising is pretty immoral. Maybe that is an inherent quality to it, or maybe it is just its current state. I'll have to watch the video you posted.
Have you seen Adam Curtis's "Century of the Self"? You might be interested.
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No.987
>>986Yes, I've seen it.
Interestingly, I did not get such a strong reaction from it. Perhaps because of the fractured nature, or the educational instead of expository tone.
All aspiring psycho-politicians must remember that we are not beings of pure reason, and that just because we are aware of the manipulation doesn't mean that we are immune from it. Sometimes we must stop looking at the object we are studying as impersonal observers and realize how we are personally affected by it. This can give us greater insight than if we pretended not to be humans.
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No.995
This partially links to the thread on the hyper sexualization of children:
http://8ch.net/32/res/666.htmlOne anon talked about how adults are being infantilized and children "adultified". This was assumed to be a strategy for easier political control, but not everything needs to be explained by the Big Bad State. Sometimes it's just a matter of money and greed; not about making servants, but consumers.
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No.1158
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No.1159
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