By the way. There is nothing more ridiculous than the way people have come to portray B.F. Skinner's Daughter-Box. His daughter herself rejects the statements that it was cruel. Powell V Texas, now there is an atrocity!
My aunt went to Trinidad and Tobago to check out a fabric distributer. While there she was given a "gift" of two bottles of wine, which she put into her luggage before boarding a plane back to Canada. Once seated on the plane she was confronted by T&T officials who removed her from the plan stating she was smuggling two bottles of liquid cocaine. She spent two years in prison in Trinidad and Tobago for drug trafficking, but claims she had no idea the "wine" was liquid cocaine. Be careful out there.
I was a bit worried that the most important things we can find to do is read about shit. But now I see that it is being put to good use. I guess I'm allergic to a lot of perfumes because I choke and asphyxiate when I inhale them. But, interestingly, the smell of human shit doesn't cause any choking or asphyxiation. Maybe I'll order some and leave it in the lunch-room at work, and maybe the ladies will prefer it.
It's not really about Facebook guys. Facebook just provides a good platform for the study.
Despite the First, Second and Third waves of feminism, in which the problem was well-defined. It continues. It wasn't just feminism but the men's movement as well. They both recognized that the culture was being defined largely by marketters.
The documentary film The Century of the Self portrays what Public Relations are like in the modern world. Sigmund Freud's nephew Edward Bernays is considered the father of Public Relations.
On behalf of many Tobacco companies Bernays took insights from his uncle Sigmund and the behaviorists Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner and psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. Without completely outlining it all - you can look up the full history and psychology yourself. Bernays developed tactics for persuading the sub-conscious minds of women. Like Pavlov did with his Dog, he used associations to program women into feeling liberated while smoking. He made cigar-ettes the effeminate version of the Cigar. Now women could have all the fun men have, but in their own style. Tobacco giant Pall Mall derived its name from a study in which it was found that statistically women are attracted to slender, and so the name has mostly l's in it, and the package had vertical lines running down it. They went to all lengths to persuade the sub-conscious. This research and development has been going on ever since with profound effects. They stopped advertising the actual products and began reinforcing associations. A Tide commercial airing in Canada says "Canadians don't fear the cold"..."So why should our clothes? Wash in Tide Coldwater".
Rationally, none of us think we are going to buy Tide Coldwater just because they repeatedly beat us over the head with the association, but the effect is sub-conscious, not conscious. It is emotional, not intellectual. If it didn't work at all, they wouldn't do it and go back to telling us what the product actually does. They know that it is better to persuade us emotionally and sub-consciously than to tell us rationally what the product does. They know it better than we do.
So, despite the efforts of Feminism, and the Men's Movement, and all this kind of research. The incidence of Bolemia, Anarexia, Anxiety, Teen Suicide, and sense of self-worth derived from one's appearance is still on the rise. As adults we may learn better, but as kids we are highly susceptible, which is why marketters are primarily concerned with Brand Loyalty amongst children. They want kids to nag and nag parents to buy, and they do. The parents, naively plop their kids in-front of the tube. The problem is actually getting worse. As Twenge points out in The Narcissism Epidemic, television programming like "My Super Sweet 16" is iconic of the trend.
Despite the First, Second and Third waves of feminism, in which the problem was well-defined. It continues. It wasn't just feminism but the men's movement as well. They both recognized that the culture was being defined largely by marketters.
The documentary film The Century of the Self portrays what Public Relations are like in the modern world. Sigmund Freud's nephew Edward Bernays is considered the father of Public Relations.
On behalf of many Tobacco companies Bernays took insights from his uncle Sigmund and the behaviorists Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner and psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. Without completely outlining it all - you can look up the full history and psychology yourself. Bernays developed tactics for persuading the sub-conscious minds of women. Like Pavlov did with his Dog, he used associations to program women into feeling liberated while smoking. He made cigar-ettes the effeminate version of the Cigar. Now women could have all the fun men have, but in their own style. Tobacco giant Pall Mall derived its name from a study in which it was found that statistically women are attracted to slender, and so the name has mostly l's in it, and the package had vertical lines running down it. They went to all lengths to persuade the sub-conscious. This research and development has been going on ever since with profound effects. They stopped advertising the actual products and began reinforcing associations. A Tide commercial airing in Canada says "Canadians don't fear the cold"..."So why should our clothes? Wash in Tide Coldwater".
Rationally, none of us think we are going to buy Tide Coldwater just because they repeatedly beat us over the head with the association, but the effect is sub-conscious, not conscious. It is emotional, not intellectual. If it didn't work at all, they wouldn't do it and go back to telling us what the product actually does. They know that it is better to persuade us emotionally and sub-consciously than to tell us rationally what the product does. They know it better than we do.
So, despite the efforts of Feminism, and the Men's Movement, and all this kind of research. The incidence of Bolemia, Anarexia, Anxiety, Teen Suicide, and sense of self-worth derived from one's appearance is still on the rise. As adults we may learn better, but as kids we are highly susceptible, which is why marketters are primarily concerned with Brand Loyalty amongst children. They want kids to nag and nag parents to buy, and they do. The parents, naively plop their kids in-front of the tube. The problem is actually getting worse. As Twenge points out in The Narcissism Epidemic, television programming like "My Super Sweet 16" is iconic of the trend.
4D Brain/Skull Model/Puzzle