This thread proceeds along at a nice pace. People tell me it has opened their eyes a bit to the nature of the cultural environment we inhabit. It's serious in some ways, but it's also funny in some ways.
Here are examples of the fine art of manipulating us marketing-wise that have gone awry.
Ten Marketing Flops
http://www.lang-plus.com/news/flops/flop_names.html
Products that Bomb
http://www.lang-plus.com/news/flops/index.htm
Seeing how mass media mind control can fail miserably is another way of seeing through it, I think.