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Reply With QuoteIt has absolutely no chance of passing because it's overkill. If you ban advertising from all public places it may as well not exist.
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What an absolutely astonishingly excellent idea.A ban on advertising in all public spaces and limits on shopfront marketing will be proposed tomorrow by the leftwing thinktank Compass in what could be a rare alliance between the left and rightwing moralists.
Compass also proposes a complete ban on all advertising aimed at children under 12 and an open debate about tighter regulations on alcohol marketing.
David Cameron has already called for restraints on "creepy and harmful" sexualised advertising aimed at children, and in some ways Compass, from a left wing perspective, is joining the same debate about childhood, and the growing impact of advertising. Cameron said he opposed the advertising industry's effort to undermine the family through concepts such as "Kids Growing Older Younger".
The leftwing group, with which the potential Labour leader Jon Cruddas is closely linked, says: "Advertising encourages us to go faster on the treadmill of modern consumer life so contributing to growing consumer debt, social problems and an ever greater risk of climate change."
Epicurus would agree: 02 - Epicurus on Happiness - Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness
It has absolutely no chance of passing because it's overkill. If you ban advertising from all public places it may as well not exist.
That sounds like heaven to me. Of course it would be able to carry on in magazines, shops etc... There's just no need to have billboards and posters all over trains, buses, taxis and just about anywhere with a flat surface.
My least favourite is TV advertising though. I hardly ever watch commercial TV but when I do, I just find it so...well....cheeky and invasive. It's like opening your door and having some guy fucking shouting in your face trying to sell you double-glazed windows or encyclopedias. Yes, you can turn it off, and I generally do but my god they're annoying. I honestly don't know how folks in the USA put up with it because whilst ours is bad, at least you get warning and don't have adverts pretending to be the news!
The broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes... Adolf Hitler
this makes me think about this from a graffiti writers's viewpoint if the common man cant make its mark then the corporate money grubbing asshole shouldn't either
When it comes to pink butterflies i could give a flying fuck.
Right on. That's actually the very first thing that came into my head when I read the first post.
How come it's fine (not in the UK anymore) to have huge posters advertising cigarettes and other shit which kills you whilst art on those same walls is illegal?
The broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes... Adolf Hitler
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