(Peter Jacobsen) Billboards have begun to pop up throughout Portland with a surprisingly personal message: stop having kids. While the idea itself is a bad one, as I’ll discuss later, one interesting question to ask is, where did this sentiment come from?
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James Vicary and Subliminal Advertising
(Exploring Your Mind) James Vicary’s experiment was a very popular 1956 experiment that took place in the United States. Said experiment supposedly proved that people can be mentally manipulated with, what he called, “subliminal advertising”.
The True Meaning of the 7 Most Deceptive Marketing Phrases Used by Big Food and Big Pharma
(S.D. Wells) In a big country that allows corporations to run the regulatory agencies, there’s not much room for ethics, because it’s all about the money. The massive U.S. food and medicine industries are dominated by a handful of monopolistic businesses that make billions off consumer ignorance, and that’s just a cold hard fact. Nearly all conventional food and allopathic medicine is highly corrupted with chemicals that propagate disease and disorder, so the corporations that manufacture and process them in laboratories must trick and confuse the consumers with language and slogans that sound “warm and fuzzy.”