This post is about:
Modernism
Digital media
Advertising
Personality
The argument is that sales messaging is the means by which the modern personality is increasingly formed. Not ‘informed’ - but shaped by the deliberate attachment of feelings to symbols.
This has implications for free will, liberty, rationality, ethics, the model of our economy and wider social and political organisation.
There is a summary at the end, which is a short essay about the above. I include some tips on how to #staysane. These are just a few pointers from my own experience and you can obviously add your own.
There is a postscript which reveals A True Secret of the Master. Use this power wisely.
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