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    “Get ‘Em While They’re Young!” Marketing Your Child’s Brainwashing (1969-2007)

    What a difference 40 years makes.Bring sales and marketing together with ROI Copywriting!

    I remember we got the piss scared out of us in 6th grade. Not because of our teachers (though Mrs. Gibson was plenty strict!), but because in the run-up to the first Earth Day (yes, 1970!), our weekly Scholastic Reader (newspaper and book catalog) was indoctrinating us into believing that the next Ice Age was bearing down on us.

    Yep, the adults and scientists who knew these things sternly assured us that by the time we entered the 21st century, we would not only be hitting middle age (eekk!), but the glaciers would have advanced southward through much of Canada and eventually bury our homes under miles of unrelenting ice. 

    Talk about a double whammy to young, impressionable minds! Does any of that sound hauntingly familiar? It should because today, they’re doing the exact same kind of indoctrination about global warming. Geez, pick a catastrophic climate change and stick with it awhile, will ya guys?

    I have yet to hear the same environmental lobby groups reconciling how 40 years ago we were gonna be freezing our asses off by the time we hit middle age with today’s global WARMING hysteria that the planet will be too hot and become a massive greenhouse.

    Greenhouse or icehouse, I wonder if there’s an “offset” for that Inconvenient Discrepancy? Or will any cause do, as long as it scares folk into funding them so’s they don’t have to get real jobs?

    If your child suddenly turns sullen and adopts a “What’s the point . . .?” attitude in life, check in to see what they’re being taught in school. See if you can tie the shift in attitude to the latest disaster du jour being taught. In fact, I’m sure you can bank on it because Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” DVD and “support materials” are even now worming their way through your child’s school system.

    Too bad I didn’t have time to Photoshop the pic to read “When Facts Collide”. But notice the craft in my selection — there’s the globally-warmed Earth colliding with an Ice Aged Earth.

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    By Walter |

    Topics: Inside The Mind, Marketing Mishaps |


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