Pericles

Huh?

You are looking for criticism when there wasn't any. I was in fact concurring with the humour/irony aspect of your previous post.

Funny how two people can read the same thing and come to different conclusions or interpretations.

It ain’t a new paradigm it’s been around since Adam and Eve –get a load of this:

“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil”

I’ve heard variations on that often enough in everything from breakfast cereals to cosmetics.

Ads actually pre-date humans –what are these if not advertising (and misleading advertising because the female does most of the hard work after being conned by the display):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud_6o6UGP9Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5oONd930qk

What has changed is that ads are now an art medium.

Some are very creative:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MROAQ4C0VHM
I don’t believe a word of it, but it’s brilliant.

Some are informative:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx_kxp3R2oU
This is as good as any travel documentary —tells you all you need to know about kiwiland!

Then there’s ads like this …( holy Moly!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3xGpnR1fIo
that just blow you away –that keep you coming back again and again and again …

Welcome to the real world Thinker 2. Didn't your Daddy teach you discernment. Up here in Qld we invented a machine to put the bend in the banana, and have cows with one long leg to graze around the hills. Laughter is the best medicine, another Bible quote. Please remember,
"life wasn't meant to be easy".
Richie 10

As you clearly demonstrate Richie10, even humour is misunderstood and has degenerated to ridicule and laughing at your own jokes.
Even art itself is a fraud.

If I can demonstrate, recently in a major art prize, the winner proved to be a poor copy of a forgotten master from 15th century.
After the prize was awarded the truth was revealed.
The judges responded by saying that "all art is an adaption".

The greatest art and greatest artists have always been the bearers of original idea's not adaptions.
All great artistic advances have been copied by many. So what?.

On the subject of humour, truly comic things don't require laugh tracks.
Nor ridicule, the stocking routine of trendy FM jocks for example,
where laughing at your own jokes (at someone else's expense) becomes the laugh track.

It's not that I can't see the real world or don't have a sense of humour Richie10,
it's just that I need something genuinely funny to laugh at from my point of view.

What's fun for some, can be not fun for others, and this now passes for comedy,
as well as appropriate social behaviour.This is the point of my original post.

You want DECEPTION ? :)

"HERE" is 'deception'.....it has a definite plot.

1/ Glenn Beck is pursuing (on his show) George Soros, Left wing billionaire/financier/philanthropist (cough)

2/ Soros gives $1,000,000 to Media Matters (to fight Beck)

3/ SURPRISE.... Media Matters comes out with a very 'pro Soros'and anti Beck spin.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201006210062

You get what you pay for I guess.

If ya dont like it turn it orf..