Benson Monaghan

Yes, but there is a difference in believing advertising can educate and change behavior for motivations that are rational than simply appealing to some perceived need.

For me, it's was the realization that writing is a craft, a trade that you treat much like anybody else in trades treats their own. Sounds simple, but it took the 'self' out of it that so often gets in the way. For me, it was freeing. Now I write without judgement.

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Primary Every Democrat It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.

time to primary your lazy senator, all you have to do is not say outright you are running (you are "launching an exploratory committee") and not spend $5,000 on it newrepublic.com/article/1909...

i think it's super cool that the government is run by the klan right now

Susan Collins, who can be counted on for saying she's "very disappointed," says she will vote for Tulsi Gabbard.

@thedieseldoug.bsky.social welcome!

"Can you imagine a suspense story written by Proust? I can. The prose would be leisurely and involved, the action not necessarily so, and the motivations analyzed thoroughly." Patricia Highsmith

What you call advertising is misleading. There are two kinds of advertising. That which works and that which doesn't. Sad but true. It's a cynical business.

Haha. I actually went back and reread. Moralism vs morality. Victorians excelling in the former. He credits it to having begun well before Victoria's birth. But an interesting observation on why that era produced so many interesting, if not eccentric, people.

I did have one of the biggest smoking cessation campaigns in history. But it was not by educating.

Would love to agree, but you are confusing educating with advertising. Getting someone to buy an SUV is not the same as getting someone to act selflessly for a bigger cause. Consumerism is based on satisfying individual needs and exacting those needs above the common good. However...

Three of the things I regretably discovered after a career in advertising:

1) People don't fear what is real, but what isn't.

2) Getting people to change behavior is nearly impossible.

3) To paraphrase PT Barnum, people are way dumber than you ever imagined. Sadly true.

I feel like I have left the insanity and gone to a world where 90% of the human race seems reasonable. Social media is once again social.

Jaques Barzun had some interesting things to say on the topic. Does he make the index?

Congratulations!