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'Distress' will do as well, as a word. The effect of watching a single ad with a sudden klaxon and flashing warning sign is very very small and easily...

What interests me, that is not being considered there, is not the effectiveness of advertising, in terms of how many people buy deodorant or vote for ...

I'm doing this. But I have no scheme and I am not doing it to you but with you. You keep trying to take my weapon and turn it on me, but you fail, bec...

Love that phrase! I'll be stealing it as a substitute for 'the truth is a pathless land.' One drops one's immutable and entirely correct vision into t...

I don't think it does. One can admit any amount of neuro-concrete along with the neuro-plastic. It is only our understanding of ourselves and each oth...

So, a bit of meta- psychological pontification. Folks have always had, and continue to have, a folk psychology, otherwise known as a 'theory of mind'....

Can it be, hypocrite preacher, that you too do not like being called names and sworn at?

Thanks for sharing. :s Natural disgust prevents you from re-eating those tasty seeds, thus protecting you from worms and e-coli infection. Advertising...

Fuck off out of my thread yourself if you have nothing to contribute.

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will. Joseph Goebbels. Let me tell you a co...

So I hope I have briefly managed to convey something of the psychological functioning of propaganda and advertising and shown how closely related they...

Terrapin, you probably don't want to hear this, but you are ugly. Jesus Christ, dude - wear a bin bag when you go out in public. Well probably not, re...

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag...

Everyone finds them annoying; they are designed to upset. This is the whole foundation of consumer society. We at UNcorp set out to upset you, annoy y...

The generalised human mind is what psychology studies. It is the average, the percentile. UNcorp doesn't care whether you buy its products or not, as ...

This is not at all correct. The media manufacture want. Typically, they do so by creating insecurities. They have to make people uncomfortable in some...

It's not all about you. You die whatever you think or do. The psyche is the generalised human mind, and if in general humanity is not concerned with s...

I'm not a therapist of any stripe, but only a psychology graduate and interested layman. Ok, let me be clear; sexuality is important, and if it didn't...

Possibly age is a factor, and location a factor, but my own children are not far out of their teens, and though they live in the city, they seem to be...

People are terribly conformist, and the media work hard to convince us that we should be wanting grab women's pussies if we are real men. But actually...

Gutted to have to disappoint my many fans. You might try MI5, maybe.

Yes, you don't know it because you are argumentative and do not read carefully or charitably. Instead you impute views that have not been expressed. R...

No, it isn't. If it were so, I wouldn't be talking about it. You might also notice, but seemingly haven't, that I have carefully refrained from advoca...

No, not at all. People on my street have constant problems parking because there are more cars than spaces. I don't have their problem and am glad of ...

Of course. Society is obsessed with wealth and power and status as well, at least it is if you attend to the media. It is easy enough to dismiss all t...

Thought this voyeur belonged here. In other news 64 year old man fucks black woman, and it's not even fantasy. (video not available in your location.)

Then they are not stable. People who see that progress and stability are incompatible are different and few, and they are thought to be mad-men by eve...

Unfortunately, I have no faith at all in the efficacy of my wishes for your thriving. America will decline; it does not look as if it will do so grace...

First, I introduced the term 'patrilineal', and I used it in the conventional meaning rather than make up some nonsense. If you want to distort the la...

Great poem. But let me try and put the fear of Putin into you. He has defeated the west in Ukraine, he has trounced us in Syria, and he has defeated t...

There is something odd about it for sure. Try this analogy. You know how when your pet has been to the vet for an operation, the put this cone on thei...

That it happens to be currently so is certainly true, though savagery is by no means confined to undeveloped societies. But I would like to see some a...

The premises of the argument are taken from the quoted post by @"question". It isn't a position I hold myself.

Can't read much? I'll highlight the relevant phrase to help you. That is to say, more open in the sense that the conflicts in this thread would not ha...

That's all you have found out because you are not willing to think. Other people have found out how the structure of society produces its values. They...

And guess what, Augustino has no criticism of the analysis to offer, and resorts to personal innuendo. There is absolutely no question that the wester...

Just in case anyone is interested at all in the original question, rather than the exposition of the Western conflicted attitudes to sex: here are a c...

You know that's a myth, right? In the real world nothing rises from the ashes except the stench of burning corpses.

Yeah, proper philosophers make it up before they begin.

I think one can (pragmatically) get by with methodological naturalism. Nature is only intelligible to the extent that it is intelligible, and whereof ...

Patagonia? Is that where pataphysics leads to? Here is a patalogical syllogism for the all patagonegirls. P1. For all X, if X is a man, X is mortal. P...

Well if you want to be so picky, I can modify 3. instead of 2. as you do, thusly: 4. All men except Buddha and Jesus, who have no other monikers parti...

Yes, that is correct; a conditional does not say how things are, but only that if they are thus then they are so. After all, it is equally the case th...

p1. If the dog has exploded, my work is done. p2. The dog has exploded. c1. My work is done. ... p3. If my premises are true, my conclusion is true. (...

It makes perfect sense, If you bracket off the 'if'. But the 'conclusion' is not the conclusion of an argument that is being made. If you will look ba...

One last time. It does not conclude what you say its conclusion is, because it does not assert what you claim its premise is, and that is how "if" fun...

"If I chuck a brick at the window it will break" does not make the claim that I chuck a brick. I find it very odd that so many folks do not seem to un...

Don't know about BC, but the official organ of milk and water liberals in the UK agrees. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/05/america...

That's just a made up place, America is not real.

No, because there are no premises or conclusion. It's a statement, and it's false, despite the facts that I am a man and from Wales and named Bob, bec...