So Epicurus said we needed friendship, freedom, and an analyzed life for happiness. Good ideas, but definitely a lot oversimplified. The shopper unhappiness mystery shows how complicated it really is. I just don’t even go into stores. I can see all the happiness tricks the store uses. Everythings clean, everythings bright (b/c serotonin’s produced w/ a full spectrum of light), everything’s color coordinated and balanced looking, everything’s in order. Everything’s real. Like, the store has real tile, real glass, (real shiny shiny matching textures). The hangers are sometimes made of wood. 100% aesthetically pleasing. The music is picked out appropriately for the “target” customer. When you go shopping, you’re only doing one thing without distraction (unless you have kids). So you have “flow” and your day has structure. The clerks are paid to be nice and friendly to you. Manly Hall said lots of ancient people believed your DNA or your body sort of “took on” characteristics of your environment. If you lived in an unbalanced unfriendly assymtrical looking house/world, your kids would look all fucked up and assymetrical. and vice versa. I like the idea of buying a big house and getting your friends to live with you. First step: get friends. LOL. That's actually very complicated for a lot of people. True friendship is all mental. And some of us are a strange mental breed.
Yes he was an awesome philosopher,I think my favorite.
That is genius how they tie products to those things we really love in the ads.Always booze with the friends or the perfume that brings you freedom,really manipulative shit.
I think that would be so cool for a bunch of friends to buy a big house out in the country and just smoke weed all day ,farm ,hunt etc.He was like the first hippy.
That one shopper dude was really your typical hives sheeple type.He was running his credit card up on stupid shit and couldn't stop for long.I use to be that way to an extent.This doc helped me see how the ads were manipulating me and I didn't understand how I would have this burning desire to get a certain brand name just out of the blue or so I thought.Those subliminals really work on the untrained mind.I give a shit about most consumer goods nowadays.
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Nice find. I love these kind of shows.
So Epicurus said we needed friendship, freedom, and an analyzed life for happiness. Good ideas, but definitely a lot oversimplified. The shopper unhappiness mystery shows how complicated it really is.
I just don’t even go into stores. I can see all the happiness tricks the store uses. Everythings clean, everythings bright (b/c serotonin’s produced w/ a full spectrum of light), everything’s color coordinated and balanced looking, everything’s in order. Everything’s real. Like, the store has real tile, real glass, (real shiny shiny matching textures). The hangers are sometimes made of wood. 100% aesthetically pleasing. The music is picked out appropriately for the “target” customer. When you go shopping, you’re only doing one thing without distraction (unless you have kids). So you have “flow” and your day has structure. The clerks are paid to be nice and friendly to you. Manly Hall said lots of ancient people believed your DNA or your body sort of “took on” characteristics of your environment. If you lived in an unbalanced unfriendly assymtrical looking house/world, your kids would look all fucked up and assymetrical. and vice versa.
I like the idea of buying a big house and getting your friends to live with you. First step: get friends. LOL. That's actually very complicated for a lot of people. True friendship is all mental. And some of us are a strange mental breed.
Yes he was an awesome philosopher,I think my favorite.
That is genius how they tie products to those things we really love in the ads.Always booze with the friends or the perfume that brings you freedom,really manipulative shit.
I think that would be so cool for a bunch of friends to buy a big house out in the country and just smoke weed all day ,farm ,hunt etc.He was like the first hippy.
That one shopper dude was really your typical hives sheeple type.He was running his credit card up on stupid shit and couldn't stop for long.I use to be that way to an extent.This doc helped me see how the ads were manipulating me and I didn't understand how I would have this burning desire to get a certain brand name just out of the blue or so I thought.Those subliminals really work on the untrained mind.I give a shit about most consumer goods nowadays.
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