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How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations

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Re: How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations

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Post by mverwijs »

E6300 wrote: post #460
hsitz wrote: post #284

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I wish it were merely a way to avoid taking personal responsibility. There's much more to it than that. Read "The Psychology of Influence" along with some of the stuff by, e.g, Kahneman and/or Tversky on behavioral economics and the various cognitive biases humans have that lead them to make poor decisions. I assure you that corporations have read all of this and are taking advantage of it to part you from your money…

So what exactly are you saying these influences can do? If you tell me that they're going to make me slightly more likely to buy one brand of soap than another, I can accept that. If you tell me that they're going to make me buy diamonds when I have no conceivable use for diamonds, I'm gonna have to call BS.

It is funny you mention diamonds, since they are the epitome of marketing a valueless product into something everybody (except you) wants to buy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...

'In its 1947 strategy plan, the advertising agency strongly emphasized a psychological approach. "We are dealing with a problem in mass psychology." '

Re: How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations

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Post by mverwijs »

witty_username wrote: post #339
mverwijs wrote: post #252

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Advertisements target your lizard brain. That bypasses your rational thinking. It is not a fair fight and not merely "just say 'no'".

I'm not saying a person is perfectly rational. But if you don't like something just don't do it. Corporations aren't forcing you. Could you give an example of how you can't say no to advertisement?

The problem with manipulation is that there is no 'forcing'. That is the entire problem.

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hashhar wrote: post #373
manmal wrote: post #185

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Crime is not the problem, traffic is. I grew up in a blind alley, and the whole town was really low in traffic. I started cruising around with my bike together with the neighbors at age 7, and we met a car every 10 minutes, tops. They slowed down to a stop, mostly, when they saw us. Fast forward, we are living in a city of 30k citizens now, though on the outskirts; there is a major road about 200m away, and although…

Totally off topic but the way you used 'spirit away' made me realise the title for Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away". I never bothered to look it up and felt it was about ghost 'spirits'.

I think the title (the English version, at least) is supposed to evoke both meanings.
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