1st time published in 42 years! Singo mocks uni students on civil liberties and freedom of choice: Day by day it gets more and more fashionable to become part of the new consumer movement against advertising. Ban it. Censor it. Change it, is the cry. As though advertising has some mysterious power all its own to deprave and corrupt and make you buy more and more Defender even though you have no snails. The movement is totally unthinking and unnecessary, but it is also amusing. For example, the very avant-garde universities: Boy the last thing they can stand is people advocating censorship, or saying that pot or free love is bad for you. Boy they don’t want to hear that stuff. If they want to read something, boy they want to read it. And if they want to freak out for a while, boy, they want to freak out for a while. And if they want to free love for a while, boy, that’s just what they are going to do. It is their life, boy. And they have the right and they take the right to do just what they want with their own goddam life and boy you better not forget it. Free love, free reading, free tripping. Everything, but not advertising. No sir. That’s different. Advertising should be banned. Censored. Done away with. Advertising inflates prices. Causes depressions. Avarice. Breaks down family life. Sets false idols. Boy, advertising is really awful. [Source: economics.org.au/2013/09/john-singleton-mocks-university-students-on-civil-liberties-and-freedom-of-choice-in-1971/ ]
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:00:46 +0000
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