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On 04/02/01 10:41, Douglas Brooker said this-
>Is it relevant whether subliminal advertising is effective or not?
What a question....
Yes, of course it's relevant- it's relevant to the point of it's being a
myth or not. At present, it's an urban legend, just like any other story
out there.
It's relevant because this legend is being used to hoodwink people, like
homeopathy and chiropractic and scientology and feng shui and psychic
hotlines and....
It's relevant here because it is _not_ a valid behavioral mechanism, but
it is a cultural entity.
It is relevant because what _is_ effective does need to be filtered out
of culture, which is what, perhaps, I had thought memetics was about.
- Wade
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