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Pat's avatar

Came here from Barsoom. I think you’ve touched on something so profound and pervasive that it has the quality of water to a fish or the atmosphere we are surrounded by and breathe into our bodies minute to minute.

I remember ads from my childhood, jingles to help us little “ heads full of mush” ( to borrow from Rush Limbach) remember to ask our mom’s to get us some “coo coo for Cocoa Puffs.” Pictures of Barbie on cereal boxes, etc.

What’s happening now is just an extension of this. The movie A Christmas Story has Ralphie desperate to get home to check the mailbox for his ovaltine decoder that he sent away for.

Has this been going on since the printing press enabled ads for products?

There is something so basic at the heart of our psyches that can be tapped and exploited. It’s too easy to reach that sweet spot. What is it? The reward center? Is it all about dopamine?

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Yakub's avatar

I created my caucasus cavemen to dispose of the n-words. An 8 billion year old Allah being associated with such lowly beings is heinously offensive. Imagine my shock when I returned from alpha centauri a few decades ago and see you breeding and worshipping the accursed things. I might have to blow this bitch ass planet up... again.

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