Celerysteve Posted:

That is a red herring and an exaggeration of the truth, to make the truth seem implausible. It’s just about money.

Is it about money? yes. Are there secret male reproductive organes in coke ads telling me to buy more? No. All that really needed to happen was this sentence in the quote. A bunch of paranoid junk about how disney and coke are using subliminal sex to sell their product is silly. There’s plenty of reality out there that backs up the premise that ads are a kind of corrupting influence. However, they were easy to ignore before and they’re only getting easier, and there is more choice about what media to read and consume than there ever was before.

That’s a bigger problem these days, imo. A lot of people will spend so much time on some bit of silliness like oh say, the moon landing, and completely ignore that NARA is constantly declbumifying material and making all kinds of interesting and relevant stuff available for public consumption.

NARA is also awesome. I like their site a lot: http://www.archives.gov/ I think the exhibits section is particularly cool. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/