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To: Sam the Sham
The corporate mass marketer has no use for civilized values. He does not want moral character, deferred gratification, hard work, and concern for others. He wants laziness, narcissm, selfishness and cowardice.

Sheesh, when I want to read inane anti-business screeds I can go to Slashdot. The "corporate mass-marketer" wants exactly one thing: profit. If he's producing sex and violence, it's because we're buying it. Be honest; your problem isn't with Hollywood, it's with your fellow Americans who like things that you don't.

127 posted on 11/18/2004 2:02:21 PM PST by ThinkDifferent (A plan is not a litany of complaints)
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To: ThinkDifferent; discostu; Bella_Bru; red_is_beautiful

Apparently you brain has never heard of "The Cultural Contradiction of Capitalism" by Joseph Schumpeter, the man who created the concept of "creative destruction".

When Schumpeter wrote, he only foresaw that the modern mass marketer would destroy the thrift, deferred-gratification, hard work, no frills 1750 Scottish Presbyterian values that had created capitalism in the first place. He could not have forseen that they would destroy adulthood altogether and replace it with permanent adolescence dominated by high school fears of rejection.

The messages and images of the mass marketer, the values behind them, didn't just happen. They were created by very capable people who spent a lot of time and money researching your fears and wants. If they've got your mind, your wallet will follow. If they've got your children's minds, your wallet will follow because it will be the price of peace.


137 posted on 11/18/2004 2:14:38 PM PST by Sam the Sham
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