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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / General => Topic started by: XDelusion on November 09, 2011, 04:25:38 PM
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Example A: Classic Eazy Bake Oven Commercial
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Example B: Modern Eazy Bake Oven Commercial
[youtube]lreImESlrG0[/youtube]
“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products. - Neil Postman
“Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. - Neil Postman
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I'm sure pedobear prefers the modern ad. As for health and safety, no one should be dancing in the bloody kitchen!
Seriously though, this is Scary stuff indeed. Personally I avoid cooking "kits" for my kids, we make cookies with flour, sugar and butter. It costs less and I don't have another expensive toy clogging up the house. Having said that, I avoid TV too. Have you seen this ad?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IP6gexi1Js
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As Mr. postman has observed, it is not so much the products that are being sold,but rather life style's, trends, philosophies, and propaganda. At one time this tactic was more subversive, now a days it's more in your face.
They are sexualizing children and adult teenagers alike, which plays a major role in the decline of human standards and common sense that we are witnessing today.
Also the younger generations are once again being lied to about our collective history, though this time the lies pour in through a different angle than before, appearing to take the side of the oppressed (or fabricated repressed), but in fact creating a new form of intolerance and repression. And as a result, a new repressed category of people who's struggle, cries, and case of preservation goes unnoticed, and unheard.
I've never saw the commercial you posted before...
Creepy!!!
Though I question,"what does it profit a man to kick, claw, weep, and scream before the proverbial beast? Why not turn our backs, make our own way, and show the beast we don't need him his "hand outs", or quick and easy solutions (for such a thing does not exist).
Like you, I ditched TEll-Lie-Vision back in 93. I knew I had to stop watching or I'd end up hurting someone if not myself. ;)
I do get exposed here at work though, and through bill boards, people's radio's, and the all prevAding pseudo-culture that surrounds me...
The masses who have been raised upon the Teet of the mass media, many of them know nothing else but that subjective reality. :/
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Your commercial reminds me of the John Carpenter classic, They Live! :)
[youtube]BA8drfZwnXQ[/youtube]
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As a kid I watched "The Invaders" but to be honest I think the thing that made me question so much was hearing the nuclear siren in Slough being tested every two weeks. You just can't prod a kid with brains and artistic leanings with a big paranoia stick that often before he says "WTF's going on?"
I said "WTF's going on?" and then spent the rest of my life falling down the rabbit hole, so to speak. Sometimes you gotta take a break from looking down the rabbit hole or you go loco of course. Shame that I can't just switch on my TV and chill, but once you down that red pill it's no longer an option, everything requires that bit more thought.
Having said that with painting, drawing, tabletop war-games and RPGs, video games and all the other things I do, I don't have time for scrubbing my humanity away with TV soap anyway.