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Out of context: Reply #23
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- cafloppy0
Ponyboy, I don't know the people at Psyop, although I'm willing to bet they will still sleep tonight without my added flattery.
"when YOU go 'shooting your mouth off' like that - what the hell kind of response do YOU expect?"
Sarcastic, mean-spirited responses don't bother me. But I do "expect" a response substantiated with logical coherence, where what needs to be proven is not merely assumed (i.e., how my pointing out the absurdity of the Coke commercial title becomes the sole evidence needed to conclude my views on boycotts, where the blame lies, etc).
I didn't miss the point of this thread. Following your logic (to just an extreme end), if I were to point out the beautiful prose of Mein Kampf (assuming, for a moment, it was well-written), would it be fair if I reprimand anyone who might interject that judging Hitler's book on his writing style alone is absurd? Do I have the "right" to respond that there was nothing political about the discussion until some whiny critic showed up to put the book in its correct context?
While I can appreciate the work that went into the Coke commercial, I cannot simply seperate means from ends so easily. Concealing the social relationships that exist in business through manufactured and blatantly dishonest messages is political in every sense of the word. I realize this is not an isolated incident. In fact, its very dangerous to push a purely anti-Coke message as if Coke is an abberation in an otherwise fair and just system. Again, my post was brought up in response to the NTB post and my reading of the semi-recent article in The Nation.
But to suggest that I might be promoting an agenda in an otherwise value-free discussion is just nonsense. You can continue to carry on about how there is "nothing political" about commercial work, about design in general. But all that tells us is that you haven't the slightest clue as to what politics are.