Does subliminal advertising play a part in political
campaigns?

Can anyone think of any examples that attracted your
attention?

For example a candidate standing on a podium bearing
several national flags. Or photo shoots taken with
smiling children, or working with life-savers or
fire-men. Surely that sends a message to voters.
Or posing in church singing, or posing outside a church
with a Bible?

A lot of advertising is competitive - one company trying to convince us that their product is better than their rival's. This is the essence of capitalism; if there was just one government monopoly producing a product, they wouldn't need to advertise, we'd have no choice. Wouldn't that be communism? So I am somewhat surprised at the outrage of those usually conservative / right wing posters about an essential element of capitalism, business competition.

Foxy,

That is not subliminal advertizing, it's right out in the open.

Subliminal is the example before me of a trussed-up and cooked chicken on Coles' current recipe book with 'sex' embedded; remember the old adage "Sex Sells"

ttbn,

I've shewn embeds to many very intelligent people and they can't consciously see them.

Try:http://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/sentences-with-the-word/advertize.html

Is Mise,

I don't know anything about your ability to judge intelligence, so we should probably leave that bit alone. I'm more interested in in hearing who else but you spells advertising with a zed.

Yuyutsu,
>Or causing an actual injury!
No, that's battery! But they often go together.

>Sowing unsolicited new desires in one's mind is an injury to that person.
No it isn't - at least not usually. An arguable exception is when fulfilling those desires is harmful

>Because it heals a gaping wound.
You wrongly assume the gaping wound to be the desire itself. In reality the gaping wound is often unaddressed because it's unrecognised.

>Wouldn't it be better if the victim was not wounded to begin with?
Complete absence of desire is stagnation; not a heathy state at all!

>Also, fulfilling desires has its costs.
Yes it does, and people can (and do) judge for themselves whether the benefits are worth the cost. You seem to want to deny that comparison to those who don't actively look for it.

>why flood someone, besides the actual solution(s) to their need(s), with so much other, disturbing and
> irrelevant, information? Further, why inflict such disturbing information on others who do not even have a need?
The world is full of disturbing and irrelevant information. Advertising is trivial in this regard - the news is far worse!

> Yes, those who are not yet aware of their problems should be encouraged to introspect and find them.
But how would they know they're not yet aware of their problems, and what makes you think introspecting would result in them being found?

> The commerce platforms should be supporting ordinary people rather than the greed of producers.
The economic system based on satisfying "the greed of producers" has produced spectacular results; certainly much better than any alternative system. I see no advantage in trying to replace it with something based on introspective need!

I spell it advertising if I expect mainly Australians to read it. I spell it advertizing if I expect mainly Americans to read it.