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Pop Nihilism: Advertising Eats Itself

24 pointsby dc2k08almost 16 years ago

4 comments

hvsalmost 16 years ago
This article displays a complete misunderstanding of advertising and an intellectual arrogance that I've come to expect from AdBusters. They are disgusted by the <i>"proletariat"</i> and his need to buy the latest bauble even while claiming to be fighting for him. Maybe, just maybe, the average consumer knows what he wants better than a bunch of pseudo-intellectual hipsters.
madairalmost 16 years ago
An excellent example of both faux-deconstruction <a href="http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html</a> and intellectual impostors as described by Dawkins <a href="http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/dawkins.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/dawkins.html</a>, also seen on Hacker News :-D<p>Seriously, read both those articles and compare with this if you think I'm trolling.<p>Anti-consumerists dancing on capitalists' graves are getting jiggy too soon. Eyeballs still equals sales, there just isn't quite as much money swirling around the system right now.<p>[Edited for clarity]
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tybrisalmost 16 years ago
Now regardless of the lack of meaningful content, I would like to urge writers to learn how to write a proper introduction and conclusion on long articles, which together summarize its contents. See it as a service to your reader.
shoalmost 16 years ago
For a second I read that as Pop Will Eat Itself. Gimme big mac gimme fries to go!
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