Worth unpicking a little of the Orwellian contortion of language that goes along with that. While "Nazi"'s generally will understood now, for what it historically is, what's less well understood in some places, is that "Nazi"'s derived from "national socialism", and from there we can critique what was (and what some still try to promote), was not (and is not) either nationalist, nor socialist. It was expansionist and domineering (among many other suitable descriptors (supremacist, jingoist, hegemonic, totalitarian, eugenicist, etc)). All quite the contrary to being nationalist, or socialist.
And, quite the example of the danger of the name changers. We're fortunate to have seen Hitler for the rotter he was, and to have seen how rotten "Nazism" is, but I still wonder how much goodness (baby) got thrown out with the newspeak inversion and conflation (bathwater).
Similar to how Marx usurped the word "communist" (used by anarchists for at least 5 years before Marx took it) and handed it over to tankies and totalitarians, and the Cold War's authoritarian Right, were only too eager to carry on the mislabeling of totalitarianism as communism, in their McCarthyian RedScare. One side of authoritarianism using "communism" as their pleasant sounding rebrand, the other side of authoritarianism happy to misuse the term too, to make "real communism" (anarcho-communism) unappealing, in being confused with the authoritarian ilk.
... How much of this then goes back to geography and crops... or secret societies and plots... There's so many more cans of worms to explore.
I just thought that a good time to remind ourselves of the context. ... & not all communists are totalitarians. (Arguably none are, if seeing through the Orwellian mislabelling.)
Yup. Good to point out the "all nazis are fascist, not all fascist are nazi" distinction logic. Thanks.
I kept trying to warn people, that merely moving "left" from the more purely corporatist fascism we are currently under, does not bring us to a better place. The "greater good" start getting served with totalitarian atrocities all the more, moving from a more Pinochet place to a more Hitler place. We have to get more freedom back too, in at least equal measure...
“We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.” -- Mikhail Bakunin
Reading other replies here, I realise, I miss policeman. It was the best web cruft blocker add-on. Really easy non-fiddly high-fidelity controls over what you allow from where. IIRC, last release was 2015, but I think more recently the developer [Edit:Link]asked somewhere if people were interested in it being revived[/E].
...' Saved me anyway. One less advertiser in the world. One more anti-advertising advocate in the world. :) A +2 gain, at no expense of arranging a wall and firing squad. ;)
Do everything you can to avoid letting the manipulation get even the tiniest toe-hold on your senses and mind and emotions.
I used to work in "advertising or marketing". I know from the inside, how dangerous it is. I was "just doing my job", seeking to do the best for my client, getting them as big a return for their money as I could. ... That means maximally psychologically manipulating any who encounter the advert (or logo or whatever).
Insidiously created associations, shifting perceptions, contorting preferences, coercing purchases, without you realising that's being done to you.
I'm glad I had the experience to know what it's like. I'm even more glad I got out of advertising as soon as I got up to the level of making TV adverts.
While animating my first TV advert, for the entire 3 months, as background, I would play a Bill Hicks VHS over and over, wearing it out to garbled snow. Meaning around 12 times a day I'd get a dose of "Anybody here work in advertising or marketing?".
Our little team of two (me, making the advert, and Timi, schmoozing the client), made a big impact with our effectively non-existent budget. Changed the culture. Imagine how much could be done by those with millions and billions to spend, on getting into your mind, to play you like their cash-cow puppet, without you realising.
YES! AVOID ADVERTS WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT! THIS IS SERIOUS! STOP LETTING ADVERTISERS DATA-MINE YOU AND COLD-READ YOU! AVOID ADVERTISERS WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT!
have an actively hostile relationship with advertising
What fools we've been, thinking we could televise the revolution on a corporate monopolist video platform, where ultimately they have absolute control over. Even bigger fools we've been, pinning our emancipatory power hopes to our labour?
That's a lot of learning from the British Empire too then.
And from that other moustached Austrian/German, Ed Bernays, on how to sell the genocide to the public. Top "advertising or marketing" ["crystalizing public opinion"/"manufacturing consent"] you got there, USA.
[One possible avenue...]
Step 1:
Not falling for that [circular-reasoned] self fulfilling prophecy.
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