Posted on 05/17/2009 4:30:37 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
fixed it...the title ain't html
Cheers!
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Oh, now they'll do both. Haven't you been on any threads about child-rearing? The same people who complain that children don't act like paragons in public also complain about any efforts made to teach proper behavior. I assume all children are supposed to be kept out of sight until age 21, at which point they can be released on society IF they're as perfect as the poster now is.
html is disabled in titles. As far as I know there is no way to use html in a title.
Very good read.
Two words: Time constraint.
This is, first and foremost, a radio ad. Billed by the second, ad cost money; therefore, it needs to be brief, to the point, "familiar" (who hasn't dealt with a bratty kid?), and memorable.
IOW, there isn't time in the ad. Let us not attribute a social malaise to what is, in fact, an economic creation/decision from a company simply trying to make a buck.
This has nothing to do with anything ... but thought you might allow me to park it here. Your kids will say, "I want one!":
The Electrolux Deathray.....
A modified Electrolux canister vacuum atop a Steelcase chair base. Made of steel, machined aluminum and acrylic, it stands 20 inches tall with a length of 54 inches. When fired from a trigger at the back of the gun, clear acrylic rods glow a bright ruby red, and a jet like sound comes from 6 German siren whistles powered by vacuum pressure. The sound can be adjusted with the variable pitch dial on the side. Watch the infamous DeathRay commercial here.
Target Market.
It has to be familiar to the target market, hence representative of the society.
There's no time in the commercial, but why did they choose *that* example? You don't see ads with strong, respected, competent fathers, either, because that's not what the mass culture is allowed to value anymore.
In another connection check out this banned Volkswagen commercial from YouTube.
Cheers!
BTW, thanks for reminding me, I was going to add to the piece but I forgot.
Hoover is the name of the President associated with the Great Depression: but it is also household name for vacuum cleaners. Another brand of vacuum cleaners is Electrolux.
You do the math.
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This is your money sentence. Down hill is one view, miles away across a flat plain is another.
Away from what you ask?
The purpose of liberalism and of the current extremely successful quest for change is to move away from Victorian era morals and manners. The goal of liberalism is freedom from what is perceived as the regimented and stifling shackles of Christian moral ism.The progress of progressives is movement is away from Christian Victorian society.
If we can postulate evolving social structures based on the new protestant ethics and morals of the Reformation, the system peaked around the turn of the 20th century. Since that time there was a tendency to move away. All the old ways are rejected. All the old taboos are to be embraced and experienced. All the accumulated knowledge of cultural human history is to be disposed and trashed.
All the old ways are being replaced with the new ways constructed from thin air by the liberal enlightenment. It should be viewed as an irreversible fiat accompli.
The Liberal trend is successful and in the absence of massive blood shed irreversible. The only people willing to shed that blood are the radical fundamentalist Muslims of Al Queda and the Taleban.
I have a Dyson.
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Thats what the participants flatter themselves into thinking.
I believe, however, that the appearance of such is merely two things:
1) The disaffectation of the masses with politics ("my vote won't matter anyway")
2) The separation of the mores of the cultural "elite" (candidates, acamedicians, Gramscian infiltratees) from those of the masses.
There was a reason Sarah Palin drew hyperactive crowds. With anyone decent at the top of the ticket, they'd have won in a landslide.
Cheers!
We did do that in our bedroom with water once. 42 years later the memory of standing in line watching while my brother got his spanking from dad first, is as vivid as if it happened yesterday
It takes high power to clean up after so many people. And speaking of which, I’ve got the four biggest slobs out of the house for now, so it’s time to break out the mop machine!
......Thats what the participants flatter themselves into thinking.......
My view of that sentence is that the thinking is now pervasive. Obama and the liberal elite were elected. The tipping point was reached on November 7, 2008. The Urban Masses are now in control and demanding rapid disposition of the old ways. It is no longer peripheral eddy, but the mainstream
The crowd appeal of Sarah Palin is not that of the Urban Masses, but of the new Exurban Minority.
So again, how did we get away from it? I think the answer goes back to the 1960's, when the counterculture came into being.
Them damn hippies!
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