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[quote user="henry6"] Very little has ever happened without a planned or unplanned indoctrinization.  We have smoked for years even though we know it will kill us because it was made so attractive by marketing, for instance. People bought war bonds and savings bonds because they were marketed as much as being the patriotic thing as they were a good buy.  Read what I have written above about how things happen.  We don't just wake up one morning and decide we want or need something...from what we eat, drive, do, think, etc., it is implanted in our minds until we react the way the implimenter wants.  Tell me one thing we do, think, eat, drive, or whatever, except breath, that has not been introduced to us by other forces. [/quote] I assume that when you mention marketing you are including advertising, and I agree that advertising does attempt to indoctrinate, and to some extent, it succeeds.  People do have to learn about something they might want before they will attempt to acquire it, so advertising can merely serve to inform some people of something they would want without indoctrinating them to buy it.  But I don’t think that all of the desire to consume is simply the result of marketing / advertising indoctrination.  If it were, all marketers would have a sure-fired path to wealth.  There has to be more to the formula than just brainwashing people into consuming what you want them to consume.  Something must have kicked in that told the public not to listen to the marketing for the Edsel.
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