Has it made you less susceptible to advertising?
I feel like I see the hidden meanings/messages in it more.
Any other thoughts on it you would like to share?
It is highly reccommended if you haven't read it.
2006-09-20 10:34:26 · 6 answers · asked by kermit 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
MtealeyeA
I read it because my cousin was assigned it in college. It should be assigned everywhere!
2006-09-20 10:40:30 · update #1
I mean do you see the message Mother Culture is sending in advertising- like "buy this because it is your right" or things like that?
like "Buy a Hummer. It is OK for you to take up way too much space and use too much gas because you are more special than the animals and environment".
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2006-09-20 10:54:14 · update #2
I read it, and it's influenced my thinking in that some of Quinn's ideas seem to corroberate with the evidence I have available about the evolution of ancient economics and politics. It makes sense that agriculture was the beginning of civilization, but that it had negative effects as well as positive is a less accepted idea. The themes about mankind's imprisonment on this earth also make some sense, though they were never outlined in enough detail for me. Ishmael has made me much more aware about environmental problems too, and while it also made me lose hope that the earth can be saved within the context of civilization and society as we know it, it led me to accept the premises behind utopian visions as held by Karl Marx and others about future societies that are structured completely differently. As I understand it, Mother Culture determines how people live much more than we realize, so if our world forces us to adopt another culture, people really can change for the better. It's just going to take a cataclysmic disaster before culture will need to change sufficiently, though. I've not noticed anything different about advertising, however.
2006-09-20 10:47:37 · answer #1 · answered by Fenris 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read it but I've got a different opinion than the others have posted so far. It is a book that will make you think and will teach you something different than what you most likely were taught while maturing/growing up. However I think that the approach and ideas carried out were done very patronizingly. I felt like the book treated me as an idiot who needed to have these ideas hammered in.
Basically the pretense of the book is that modern culture is headed for disaster since it has considered itself separate from evolution. This involves pointing out how big the ego which society has is, something I already knew. There is much more to it than that, including why, how and what to do to avoid it but I won't elaborate. It is a good book and it will make you look at things differently. However I did not really like the way it grabbed me by the nose and pulled me along.
2006-09-20 12:10:10 · answer #2 · answered by dagon12 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Haven't read it, but maybe it's worth checking out. Sounds like something I would have read in Media Criticism or Analytical Thinking. Not sure how much of the book deals with this, since I haven't read it, but thanks for bringing it to my attention.
2006-09-23 13:19:28 · answer #3 · answered by truthyness 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with dagon12. It IS very patronizing.
The concept is very interesting, and the ideas were valuable, but I could have done with more responsibility as a reader.
2006-09-20 16:17:59 · answer #4 · answered by NicoRobin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great book....it should be a requirement for highschool/college level reading.
2006-09-20 10:36:40 · answer #5 · answered by MtealeyeA 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no but i will now....
2006-09-20 10:58:06 · answer #6 · answered by Love Exists? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋