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[QUOTE]A French organic farmer has forked out 3,000 euros (4,300 dollars) for a series of billboard advertisements that denounce the evils of advertising.Twenty-five of the giant ads went up this week across the southwestern town of Agen showing a human brain stuffed with advertising images and carrying the slogan "Advertising is manipulating you - React!"
Fifty-six-year-old farmer Pierre Kung explained that he was implementing the martial arts technique of "using the strength of the adversary to floor him."
"My aim is simply to get people to ask themselves questions. Because we've been brainwashed into thinking that happiness lies in consuming ever more," he told AFP.
Kung said he sympathised with but was not a member of an 'anti-advertising' militant group in Paris who attack billboards and other advertising they say blight the landscape and render the population consumerist sheep.[/QUOTE]
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Ironic.
I basically agree with his message, just it's the sort of message generally spread through graffiti- rather than a 'legitimate' means such as this.
I'm frugal as hell anyways, advertisements don't bother me much.
The way I see them, they are just short satirical films about capitalism.
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Ironic.[/QUOTE]
No, that's just being a hypocrite.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;31690312]No, that's just being a hypocrite.[/QUOTE]
And fully ironic, and hardly hypocritical when it's essentially the only way to get your message out.
This is a bit like an oxymoron.
[quote]My aim is simply to get people to ask themselves questions. Because we've been brainwashed into thinking that happiness lies in consuming ever more,[/quote]
People being happy lies in the pursuit of what they want, and then achieving it. So buying that new iPhone 4, you have it, it's finally yours. When's the iPhone 5 coming out?
It's great for business, shit for everything else including your own happiness.
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