Sunday, June 22, 2003
Mike Owens's blindspot comments on Beating the Brand and ad pollution with the Ad That Slimed Me:
I've also discovered that Evan has coined a phrase that is on google's page 1 - "ad pollution"..
I've been busy defining a new word: McPhallicism. It's a combination of the idol worship of the phallus and the idol worship of the corporation. Here's a graphic that starts to express what the meme is about. There's (much) more about it in Beating the Brand part II - whenever I finish that piece. ¶ 8:34 PM
- Advertising seeks to replace the enriching, nourishing symbols that give real meaning and guidance to our lives with vacuous vampires whose only purpose is to drain our psychic well being and transform it into material wealth for an overly rich few.
The results of people being unable to think or feel clearly because they minds are bloated with this crap are all around us: short attention spans, an inability to tell truth from lies, dependency on the opinions of others, fanaticism, individuals and groups easily manipulated by the powerful, and the need for increasing levels of stimulation.
Furthermore, since clear, critical thinking is fundamental to democracy and civil society as we would practice it, advertising is therefore fundamentally undemocratic, and disruptive of the social relationships that society depends upon.
I've also discovered that Evan has coined a phrase that is on google's page 1 - "ad pollution"..
I've been busy defining a new word: McPhallicism. It's a combination of the idol worship of the phallus and the idol worship of the corporation. Here's a graphic that starts to express what the meme is about. There's (much) more about it in Beating the Brand part II - whenever I finish that piece. ¶ 8:34 PM
