Comments on: The fanatic and the zombie. http://www.andrewhagen.com/archives/2005/04/03/872/ Resolution, Duty, Inquiry Wed, 14 May 2008 03:12:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad http://www.andrewhagen.com/archives/2005/04/03/872/#comment-1644 Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:55:44 +0000 http://www.andrewhagen.com/archives/2005/04/03/872/#comment-1644 Advertising is mental and cultural pollution. It should be taxed as such, like at 100%. So that there is less of it. The LIE that ads all tell is this: buy stuff to be happy. Buying more stuff won't make any middle class person really happy [although the very poor can avoid misery with better food and water]. Before there is hope, there is fear. Hope is the antidote to fear (much like a good justice system is the antidote to injustice). Pope John Paul II said <a href="http://tomgrey.motime.com/1112653308#438537"> Be Not Afraid</a> and thanks partly to him, I am not. Advertising is mental and cultural pollution. It should be taxed as such, like at 100%. So that there is less of it.

The LIE that ads all tell is this: buy stuff to be happy.
Buying more stuff won’t make any middle class person really happy [although the very poor can avoid misery with better food and water].

Before there is hope, there is fear. Hope is the antidote to fear (much like a good justice system is the antidote to injustice).

Pope John Paul II said Be Not Afraid and thanks partly to him, I am not.

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