Monday, June 6, 2011

This goes through my head every time I ride the subway.

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--New York Times ad of which I could not find a picture online and whose text I may not recall with complete accuracy.

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, [Winston] reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week.
--George Orwell, 1984 (source)

30 comments:

  1. Thankfully, the NY Times are not yet our beloved overlords.

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  2. But the advertising agencies are!!

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  3. pullez. they are. they make us buy what we buy and hire whom we hire.

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  4. Since when do advertising agencies set the hiring prerogatives of employers?

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  5. i meant who clients hire, not who employers hire.

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  6. You mean that they advertise themselves to be hired by their clients? Isn't that just good 'ol fashioned capitalism?

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  7. no. it's modern capitalism.

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  8. or "good 'ol (sic.) fashioned capitalism."

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  9. "Congratulations, you've just won 250 free Vista business cards!"
    With Vista, everyone's a winner.

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  10. Oh nice, I actually get that one. (Hat tip for the humanities major.)

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  11. Randall Munroe is my new superhero.

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  12. I want to make a T-shirt that says "What would Feynman do?" (As he is my superhero.)

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  13. Did you know that my superhero writes about your superhero?
    http://xkcd.com/182/
    http://xkcd.com/397/

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  14. I have the ultimate superhero. (And the comics are good too.)

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  15. and yaakov lo meis.

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  16. and the relevance to this discussion is...

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  17. Feynman lo meis? (Here I thought I was so witty.)

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  18. May I point out that Feynman is not Jacob?

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  19. At his bris he may have been

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  20. xkcd.com/755

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  21. and the relevance of that comic to this discussion is....

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  22. I think you missed the point. Under freedom, things are so good that goods are given away for free as a part of making money. Under slavery, not so...

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  23. Under slavery, due to inability to manage the economy by a monopoly, there is such shortage that they have to ration chocolate.

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  24. Wise words. The NY times is not exploiting us, and they display the greatest of economic virtues. But their deception is the same as Big Brother's.

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  25. Thank G-d they have competition in the form of Yeshiva World News.

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Forth shall ye all hold.