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The Zen of My Dad
Me: Advertising is bullshit.
Dad (who's been a copywriter for, like, 20 years): *Buddha-like laughter* Well, of course it is! But it pays well.
Ohm.
Posted March 22, 2004 10:04 PM | On This Day: 2006
Ohm?
Do I detect some resistance
to the meditation practice, Grasshoppa? Surely you meant Om or Aum? ;-)
I still get a charge out of you.
Posted by: Steve on Tue Mar 23, 2004 | ReplyThere's a lot of Jungian psychology stuff in advertising too: the advertisement obviously seeks to manipulate the desires and greed of the public.
Yet also, the advertisement serves to "[...] express the prejudices, projections, and unconscious complexes (mainly the power complex) of those who manipulate public opinion." Quote from M.L. von Franz Man And His Symbols.
You can totally see this underlying power complex at work in a lot of modern commercials which don't really say anything about the actual product.
Like Tommy Hilfiger adverts, for example.
Posted by: EternalFootman on Tue Mar 23, 2004 | Replyif the budha laughs and no one hears the budha is the budha really laughing?
Posted by: on Fri Mar 26, 2004 | ReplyMaybe you should try public relations instead. It's fun to mold the opinion of the public.
Posted by: Buddha on Fri Mar 26, 2004 | Reply
