Hi, Dean. Good to see you're willing to come here and discuss this with us.
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Anyone think thet are immune to advertising must live on another planet, (and a quick check through your cupboards and wardrobes and garage will prove it!) but if you don't realise that you are being 'persuaded' then all credit to the 'persuaders', because that is their job.
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I'd just like to say that I'm really very rarely affected by advertising, because I don't actually expose myself to any. Adblock deals with all the ads on the internet, I don't read many magazines (and the only one I read would be new scientist, which has adverts for various technological things which I really don't need in my room right now - maybe when I'm a mad scientist, yes, but not right now). And yes, let's look at my wardrobe. Trousers I bought after trawling through a number of shops looking for the plainest black trousers I could find. The shirts I own are all band shirts for bands that don't even play in this country very often, and have never advertised in this country, or my university society. My shoes? Military surplus.
The things that I have bought myself were things I went out looking for, and compared the benefits of the various things myself.
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How did you find my blog? Some "automated" system that enabled you to find content - that did not exist a few years ago. So you obviously appreciate technology advances to have your voice. So are we to herald all technology as inherently evil? Is it the medium or the message? Questions that have long been posed around - or you going to say 'rock music is evil, TV is evil' and go live in a Hamish community?
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This isn't what we're protesting. We're against a specific technological advance, not technology as a whole. I think everybody here would be happy with faster broadband, or bigger monitors, better processors etc., but that doesn't mean that we're not allowed to be distinctly worried about one specific piece of technology, especially one that opens up as much of a can of worms as this one does. This part of your stance is, as I've already described your habit of going on about separating people into brackets related to age and interest, has absolutely nothing to do with this debate.