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**Butiqueso** · 07-26-2012, 01:20 PM

It's amazing how an expensive education can still create such idiot children.

Everyone is susceptible to advertising and propaganda, and to think it's just the 'dumb' people displays a special level of stupidity. You think the worlds companies spent north of $450 billion dollars last year on advertising to just hit a small segment of stupid folks?

It's not that small of a segment unless you define it to be. "Stupid" is a relative term. You kinda gave up the right to a small grouping via definition as you want to include Kuci and HC in the "idiot" synonym group. So we can assume that roughly 95% to 99% of the population would also be idiots (or worse).

Not to mention that for an intelligent person there's a very large distinction between a commercial for a new product highlighting it's awesome features providing some incentive to try it out (reasonable)... and an attack ad convincing you that what you actually heard/read the person said was not what they said at all (completely unreasonable) ... or that it would even matter if it did happen that way.

07-26-2012, 01:20 PM	#19
Butiqueso Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 488 Senior Member	It's amazing how an expensive education can still create such idiot children. Everyone is susceptible to advertising and propaganda, and to think it's just the 'dumb' people displays a special level of stupidity. You think the worlds companies spent north of $450 billion dollars last year on advertising to just hit a small segment of stupid folks? It's not that small of a segment unless you define it to be. "Stupid" is a relative term. You kinda gave up the right to a small grouping via definition as you want to include Kuci and HC in the "idiot" synonym group. So we can assume that roughly 95% to 99% of the population would also be idiots (or worse). Not to mention that for an intelligent person there's a very large distinction between a commercial for a new product highlighting it's awesome features providing some incentive to try it out (reasonable)... and an attack ad convincing you that what you actually heard/read the person said was not what they said at all (completely unreasonable) ... or that it would even matter if it did happen that way.
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