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Obviously, no marketer in their right mind nowadays is going to try and turn that kind of aspect of the counter-culture into an advertising scheme.

They turned it into a presidential campaign when Sarah Palin took off. A few more months of her pushing those buttons and there would have been race riots.

He took it a good deal further, saying that Disney was/is basically “CIA For Kids” and they’re regularly “innoculating” against covered-up state crimes by controlling the narrative — after all, if you’re trying to explain about ML-ULTRA and everyone in the room is saying “Isn’t that a movie, though?” then someone in the Intel community has done his job, right?

Personally, I come away feeling that he’s a victim of his own pattern recognition. Lazy dumbfuck screenwriters account for more repeating themes, names and locations than any conspiracy could hope to conspire.

Also, one of the really remarkable things about human archetypes: THERE’S NOT VERY MANY OF THEM. We all lead fundamentally the same lives, from the iPod to the !Kung.

…or at least effective marketers.

Instead, they mostly settle for trying anything, watching each other obsessively, and mostly replicating whatever worked in the past 30 days.

Hilariously true if reading marketing blogs is any indication!

Fortunately, there’s no high-level co-ordination going, because if they co-operated instead of com-peting, they could stage manage to procession/turnover of the Archetypes to great effect.

If there were, it would look something like Changing Images of Man, is what I’ve always imagined, but updated Ken Wilber Spiral Dynamics NWO style and applied through multi-contextual PR avenues… But even that type of shits GROSSLY EXAGGERATED in terms of its effectiveness in driving mass behavioral patterns.

The recent emergence of this archetype/trend happened randomly, like they all do, via a “critical mass” selection process. After all, EVERY niche lifestyle, real or manufactured, is on their map and part of their toolkit. Fortunately, there’s no high-level co-ordination going, because if they co-operated instead of com-peting, they could stage manage to procession/turnover of the Archetypes to great effect.

Instead, they mostly settle for trying anything, watching each other obsessively, and mostly replicating whatever worked in the past 30 days. This is why these archetype projections burn out so quickly, and this is why advertisement gets reduced from cool to cynical quicker than ever.

An example that comes to mind is the tired “anti-ads” from Sprite, which were unusually bleak and left no room for change or growth — and to me, all of their failures are Good Things. Since “success” means huge numbers of people making irrational decisions to waste money on bullshit, it’s a tar baby nightmare that not even the allegedly cool and intelligent staff at Adbusters could fight off for more than the first 20 issues or so. Now they are a joke that can’t grok itself, just like any other Madison Avenue firm.

Personally, I welcome the previous Emo kids aboard: most of them have money and they’re easily controlled, plus humans are a pretty decent emergency food source. I’ll be luring them out to my Earthship/meat processing plant with cases of PBR in the near future.