Attack Ads! The Podcast

My Brother's Experiment

Using computers that can more or (mostly) less function as if they were "intelligent" is all the rage today, especially in business. Why hire a person when a machine can do the job? Others are…

Sky Father The Uncrumbly

Definitions can be difficult sometimes, especially when the word you are floundering to define doesn't really have a concrete definition, but rather a multitude of different applications and…

Why Capitalists Don't Exist

Categorizing certain things is important. Over-categorizing them, though, can be more damaging to one's understanding than not categorizing things at all. Lately, I've realized that categorizations…

The Magical Manipulation of Desire

I've mentioned before that advertising often takes advantage of those it targets psychologically, triggering latent vulnerabilities in all of us. Maybe it's more than just psychology, though, that…

Ratcheting the Ridiculous

Sometimes, the difference between entertainment between two countries is profound due to cultural differences. Today, I'd like to suggest that there are differences well beyond culture that affect…

The Fuel & The Fire

Nullius In Verba

For reasons I hope to make clear soon, advertising is not foremost on my mind right now. I made a realization that a great change will quite possibly befall us, and… I have no idea when. To…

Our New Normal… Is Abby

What's that phrase? One step forward, two steps back? For every positive step our society takes, it seems there are invisible forces trying to drag every step in a quite negative direction. I'll…

Chattel Trapped In Chat Hell

I never cease to be amazed at how bad some corporate decisions are… until I finally figure out why those bad decisions were probably the best way for the company to make more money. I explore one…

Henry Saw This Coming

There are far more thinkers whose writings can explain phenomena better than most; but thanks to ruthless historical suppression, those thinkers are not even considered. I'd like to frame a few…

Baffling Ripples of Synergy

Just in case you don't get enough advertising in the privacy and sanctuary of your home, good news! Refrigideezers will soon show you ads on a screen on the door! It's true! I react to this silliness…

Pulling at Tightly Woven Threads

I lately find myself dwelling on not the existence of new technology, but on questions about how we humans should treat it. After all, nothing in our cultures or languages has evolved to accommodate,…

An Abunance of Lies

Every so often, a book emerges that gets a lot of buzz from the media and gets tongues wagging. Sadly, too often those books say things that stretch credulity to the breaking point and start to smell…

Senator John Sherman's Address to The Senate

While most of us have heard of the Sherman Act, few have savored Senator John Sherman's speech to the Senate in defense of that act. Today, I present to you my reading of an edited version of that…

Rich Uncle Money-Bork, Welfare Queen

Monopolies are nothing new. Government allowing companies to merge and acquire and metastasize into monopolies, though, that is relatively new. The ideas that support monopolies come from a handful…

Breathing Together, Choking Apart

Propaganda is not just a thing that happens in the here and now. Dig well enough, and you might find old institutional knowledge that started originally as a conspiratorial plot designed to sway…

Garbage Fires and Angry Weasels

When propaganda falls, it can lead to social impacts more powerful than kinetic weapons. The troubles come when the propagandists conceal their manipulation of society with misdirecting propaganda…

A Stringent, Crystalline Vision

As I've quoted before, "ideas need patrons." I'll dive into economic ideas bought by the wealthy and spread by those Chicago school economists in this Episode 265: A Stringent, Crystalline Vision.…

Archeologists of a Bygone Age

Perhaps for the first time in human history, we people can now buy things more easily than we can fix them. Repair shops have become a thing only on television, even though so much of value could be…

The Hits To Our Privates Just Keep Coming!

Ethics often interfere with profits. When more profits are "required," companies often face a hard choice…or an easy one. Results vary. I look into two compromises/profitable opportunities in this…