[116951] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cowards at Amazon.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reese)
Tue Aug 24 10:25:56 1999
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:32:50 -1000
To: Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Reese <reeza@flex.com>
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At 09:06 PM 23-08-99 -0500, Eric Cordian wrote:
>Reese writes:
>
>> I don't want to sound like a prude here, but this stuff is out there, and
>> we are conditioned not to acknowledge it - rather, to run out & buy
>> whatever it is being advertised. Many folks poo the idea of modern
>> subliminal advertising, but it is still there, has been there all along.
>
>Are you the guy who claimed that some of the frosting swirls on Duncan
>Hines cake mix boxes looked like female genitalia? :)
Nope, but it wouldn't surprise me that some segment of sexually repressed
middle america does see that, or that the advertisers did it on purpose.
Sub. Advertising is extremely subtle, it takes effort and a trained eye to
find it - and while the above borders on mongering the issue, it is in all
likelihood a valid observation.
When they start censoring images of orchids, then we'll know it's too late.
Reese
If you want to run cool, you've got to run on any heavy fuel,,,
