Posted by alexandra_k on May 2, 2015, at 0:25:53
In reply to community vs big bang, posted by alexandra_k on May 1, 2015, at 22:56:33
i think we are pouring chemical waste on the roads. we aren't even pretending to put stones in the mix, anymore, just pouring the tarry waste onto them. constantly. and of course, every time it rains, cars go skidding and people die. but it is a constant succession of road works as they keep pouring the waste all over the roads.
i guess we get sold so much crap all covered in plastic because they gotta put the plastic someplace. so... lets put lots of it on stuff that people will buy... hells... people will probably pay more for the stuff if we plastic it up good because then they will think they have more stuff and everybody knows (subconsciously) that most stuff is best.
colors are popular right now. everybody knows cocacola is red - right? well now supermarkets are green.. and advertisements are strategically placed around sports teams... and it is really shocking, if you really listen / watch the ads...
i wonder how much of this they still teach... i wonder if i got 'lucky' in some sense... in studying cognitive psychology when i did... in learning about learning... learning about all these techniques of people manipulation that work to manipulate the people so well the people don't even know that they are being manipulated.
the surveillance... we have supermarket cards. i don't know if you guys will understand the force of this... we have this weird situation in this country. take a cheap chain store... and something really cheap and nasty like awful polyester sheets... they will have a 'massive reduction sale!' where they are 'on sale' for $20 or something rediculous. point is more that when they aren't on sale they are price tagged at something like '$120'. which they clearly aren't worth... so... we have a clear way of manipulating buying / knowing how / when to stock shelves / hire staff etc etc. the people think they have 'we are always open' but really people have 'shop now!'
anyway... back to the artificial inflation of prices so the 'sale price' is actually more of the real price... now we have supermarkets where you need to use a card in order to get the 'discount' (aka realistic) price. so the supermarkets use the cards to track your purchasing information. and of course they can do their thing with information like product placement and price combos (e.g., discount one thing in order to screw people over on the things that go with) and so on...
and the information is used to... make money. that's the thing / the problem.
the information isn't used for good. it isn't used to improve the health of populations. it isn't used to encourage people to make good food choices. it is used to get rich people richer. that is the problem.
they send out surveys asking doctors who they trust for information... so then they know to focus their advertising /education on those trusted figures. they know to pay those trusted figures x amounts of dollars to promote this or that drug, this or that implant, this or that procedure...
the information is used for... ill.
we had this 'green' thing go on in our building... some email came out about making an environmental pledge and you get some card or somethign... and if you followed the link there was basically a market research survey on things like whether you had an ink jet or laser printer and whether you had a car and so on... market research survey. and the idea is that if you do the survey you get a 'green flat' thing you can stick on your door... which is a way of advertising to other people / peer pressuring them to do the survery 'if they really care about the environment'. and the survey was... some kind of 'pledge' to ... what... 'i will take the stairs where possible' (I live on the 13th floor)...
So that people...
Stop asking for energy efficient fridge / freezers?
?
Make it seem impossible... So then people settle for less / give up. Make eating healthy seem like something impossible... So then people settle for less / give up. Make exercising appropriately seem like something impossible... So then people settle for less / give up. Making being environmentally conscious seem like something impossible... So then people settle for less / give up.
Best
Marketing
EverAnd keep the people too dumb to see it for what it is...
Or...
Think that if people are that dumb... Then really... What hope is there for them / they deserve what they get.
It really is a hard one.
I think the Tv.. The tv that watches (and probably listens) to me... I think that TV... Might just need for the mains power to be switched off / the plug to come out. It really might be as simple as that.
If the people won't turn off / shut down their appliances... Maybe the people deserve what they get.
?
P.S., is it normal for the red standby light to take a good 10 seconds to turn off after the plug comes out of the wall? Or would that suggest an alternative power source??????
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