Brand Identification

[BabylonHoruv]

This is a thought that was stirred by the reappearance of the drugs thread.  One of the main things I got from it was that Dok Howl and many others on the board don't see a problem with dong drugs, it's identifying yourself as a drug user that is fucking idiotic.

I agree, but I also wanted to say that, in it's essence, it's no different than identifying yourself by any other facet of consumption.  If you are a coke person (meaning you drink coca cola)  that's about as retarded as being a coke head.  If you identify yourself by the car you drive, that's just as bad as identifying yourself by the herb you smoke.  Brand identification is something that the brands have been pushing hard, it helps them to sell if their brand is identified with a certain lifestyle, a certain kind of person.  And it transforms each of us into easily categorized consumers, instead of simply people.  It's not a surprise to see this sort of thinking associated with illicit brands as well as the legal ones.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

I certainly don't have a problem with dong drugs!

[hooplala]

Yeah, it blows my mind when I see someone wearing a Nike t-shirt.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't do enough dong drugs.

[BabylonHoruv]

I don't do enough dong drugs.

Hush, viagra doesn't work that way on women.

[Adios]

I don't do enough dong drugs.

Hush, viagra doesn't work that way on women.

Ahem.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't do enough dong drugs.

Hush, viagra doesn't work that way on women.

Ahem.

It TOTALLY does. Ask me how I know. 

[Adios]

I don't do enough dong drugs.

Hush, viagra doesn't work that way on women.

Ahem.

It TOTALLY does. Ask me how I know. 

  OMG

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

However, being uncontrollably aroused for six hours has a downside.

[Adios]

However, being uncontrollably aroused for six hours has a downside.

thinking..............................................................................

failure to comprehend

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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

However, being uncontrollably aroused for six hours has a downside.

thinking..............................................................................

failure to comprehend

end program

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This is a thought that was stirred by the reappearance of the drugs thread.  One of the main things I got from it was that Dok Howl and many others on the board don't see a problem with dong drugs, it's identifying yourself as a drug user that is fucking idiotic.

I agree, but I also wanted to say that, in it's essence, it's no different than identifying yourself by any other facet of consumption.  If you are a coke person (meaning you drink coca cola)  that's about as retarded as being a coke head.  If you identify yourself by the car you drive, that's just as bad as identifying yourself by the herb you smoke.  Brand identification is something that the brands have been pushing hard, it helps them to sell if their brand is identified with a certain lifestyle, a certain kind of person.  And it transforms each of us into easily categorized consumers, instead of simply people.  It's not a surprise to see this sort of thinking associated with illicit brands as well as the legal ones.

You've got it backwards.

People have a tendency to tie their ego to stupid fucking shit.

And they've been doing that far longer than advertisers have been exploiting it.

It's easy to blame teh evol advertisers as corrupting agents of the innately good human, but the truth is that people want symbolic material signifiers, and always have.

Advertisers don't create that need, they cater to it.

[P3nT4gR4m]

This is a thought that was stirred by the reappearance of the drugs thread.  One of the main things I got from it was that Dok Howl and many others on the board don't see a problem with dong drugs, it's identifying yourself as a drug user that is fucking idiotic.

I agree, but I also wanted to say that, in it's essence, it's no different than identifying yourself by any other facet of consumption.  If you are a coke person (meaning you drink coca cola)  that's about as retarded as being a coke head.  If you identify yourself by the car you drive, that's just as bad as identifying yourself by the herb you smoke.  Brand identification is something that the brands have been pushing hard, it helps them to sell if their brand is identified with a certain lifestyle, a certain kind of person.  And it transforms each of us into easily categorized consumers, instead of simply people.  It's not a surprise to see this sort of thinking associated with illicit brands as well as the legal ones.

You've got it backwards.

People have a tendency to tie their ego to stupid fucking shit.

And they've been doing that far longer than advertisers have been exploiting it.

It's easy to blame teh evol advertisers as corrupting agents of the innately good human, but the truth is that people want symbolic material signifiers, and always have.

Advertisers don't create that need, they cater to it.

THIS! Both of it. You've come up with a good point between you. Now how do I go about getting that on a baseball cap?

[Placid Dingo]

Though it's natural to identify with things.

That's why people here have avartars (or conspiculously don't I'm not playing innocent), screen-names, signitures etc. That's why people are Discordian. But I agree, the brand as an identifying point is quite daft.

Tribes can be quite useful, and fantastic. But they're they're to meet your needs, not so you cater to them.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Read this the other day. It's along the same lines. Cult of celebrity aint that much different from brand identification on one level.

NP:
Tell-All explores the concept of celebrity. Why do you think as a society we're so celebrity obsessed?

CP:
My crackpot theory is that people are losing their skill to express themselves, and they're, in a way, farming that task out. If they want to express themselves they buy a song or they buy a greeting card that's already processed by someone who's kept that skill. We can't express our own feelings anymore so we have to hire someone to do that. To a large extent movies take that on, they're our therapy and our expression.

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