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Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Tomorrow -- The Ad

Advertising is that grand enterprise through which The Present is interminably and profitably re-branded and then re-sold as The Future.

More Futurological Brickbats here.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Advertising is the organized effort to increase and intensify craving. [...] Spoken or printed, broadcast over the ether or on wood-pulp, all advertising copy has but one purpose -- to prevent the will from ever achieving silence."

- Aldous Huxley

12:25 PM
Anonymous said...

Even more fun/world-destroying is when they repackage the past as the future.

I'm suddenly hearing about flying cars again

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/flying-auto/

12:45 PM

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