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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by tangledweb
I don't think that it is possible for the average person to be manipulated more effectively. Our entire society screams the Battle-Cry, "We are unique, We are special!" Then after asserting our uniqueness, statistics show that we go and buy all of the things that we are told we HAVE to have in order to be unique, beautiful or special. Some are more resistant to this manipulation than others, but no one is completely impervious to it.
I see it kind of like the old church adage about Satan. "The greatest trick Satan ever pulled was convincing the world that he wasn't real." Well, the greatest trick that media has ever pulled is convincing us that we are free-thinking and unique. You know, snowflakes and all of that...
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I was reading and article the other day about Apple and the motto, "Think Different" being contrasted by the idea that it's really "Think Like Steve Jobs." What interested me about this article was recently I saw the 1984 commercial again, and they play that to be the IBM crowd, but in my mind I see the Apple followers, blindly following Apple.
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