• Vegafjord oakframer@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    Ads are supposed to target our cognitive unconscious.

    Think about a car advertisement. Its not supposed to make you buy the car, it’s supposed to make you aware of the car and what it represents. Its mass imposition of a dezired emotional connection to the producers and that which they promote.

    They are conditioning us through imposition.

    And you know that the masses are bombarded with it, so you know the overton window is shifted towards corporations. Anyone could challenge such an imposition, but it is not a single one, but thousand upon thousand.

    Society are conditioned by capital through imposition.

    When we see an imposition, we can either let it condition us or react to it.

    By reacting, we entertain their framing which can make the imposition more effective.

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      2 hours ago

      There’s always someone saying something like this in any “I hate ads” kind of thread but I gotta say that it sounds like the sort of shit marketers want everyone to believe because they want to drive demand for them.

      I’m calling bullshit and don’t believe that marketers have unlocked any kind of mind control powers that work on everyone including those hostile to what they are trying to say and that our subconscious are so easy to manipulate once we’ve become aware of those manipulations.