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On Advertising - Part 4
In this series so far we've covered the basics of manipulating opinions, adopting beliefs and consequently controlling thoughts of the population. Let's continue a bit further and start with a hypothetical example. It deliberately might sound ludicrous but it's exactly why I've chosen it.
Let's say there is a product to be sold. Huh, that's not so hypothetical, right? :D Well, let's say the product is multicoloured panties nobody wants to buy. The best way to go about it is creating a trend. So, let's hypothetically first pay some money to a few trendsetters who will start wearing them. But, we want people to wear those panties on their foreheads for everyone to see and, while wearing them, emit good, positive, funny, entertaining vibes about how great that is.
Imagine that.
Now, why wouldn't we pay some more money to a wider bunch of hypothetical opinion makers who will write about the trend and persuade masses to go for it? They'll subtly persuade them it is really cool, great and trendy to wear our multicoloured panties on tops of their foreheads.
The word is out. Let's reinforce the emotion with billboards, ads, commercials. Let's pay a few highfalutin actors to confirm the message with a celebrity vibe. This will fortify the brand. We have enough money already, people are buying like crazy. Let's include a few fake reports about crazy events that are happening spontaneously all over the country. (Of course, we'll pay and organize those.) Let's make sure everyone knows how people love to be crazy about wearing our panties. For that purpose, we'll interview a few common people who are already influenced enough to be ecstatically happy appearing on TV. Even after all that, there is still another bunch of things we can still do to make people stupid enough to live the brand, identify with it, go crazy about it and bring many more souls to our vicious circle.
We have created a trend and the sales of our product are skyrocketing by now. Is it moral? Good for the people? I think nobody asks those questions when confronted with a river of flowing cash. This is one of the main problems of the consumer's society.
People are wearing our special forehead panties. Communities are built around it, songs are sung about them, soon it becomes inappropriate to leave the house without the new trendy piece of garment that we have blessed the world with. We use media to repeat over and over again how great we are for liberating the world that had no clue what 'important' means before our panties saw the light of the day. We now have power, fame, riches and whatever else comes along.
From this silly but quite plausible scenario hope you understand that given enough resources and time, people can be persuaded into believing whatever stupid thing they want them to. For different groups, one would need to choose different incentives but the principle remains. One needs to target his audience, right? :D
The same principles that corporations use to sell their products apply to politics, armies and religions. These groups are by far the grandest influencers of the entire world's population, even though you thought it was your favourite youtuber. Do you know why it is so? Because over the long centuries we are already brainwashed enough to believe that what is happening, is exactly what is supposed to be happening.
This is how our civilization treats people. What are your thiughts?
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