re: #90 freetoken

Your statement drives me back to my recent comparison with Adam Curtis’ documentary The Century of the Self.

The extent of social engineering through the mechanisms of advertising campaigns should not be ignored.

The Conquest of Cool

Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
by Thomas Frank

Written in 1997, this is a damning indictment of 20th century media culture. Useful though it might be to them, it is universally scorned and rejected by the right wing. This is largely because Frank is also the author of What’s the Matter With Kansas, and therefore a card carrying librul.