• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
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    4 days ago

    And sometimes you get so used to there being brightly colored ads, corporate propaganda motivational messages and various warning signs everywhere, that you develop a blindness for everything too flashy and ignore it until you encounter a roadblock that doesn’t yield.

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      3 days ago

      This is true and not just about ads. It’s called ‘sign blindness’.
      Having more signs can actually exacerbate the problem.
      It’s not (always) about being dumb or careless, it’s our nature.

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        3 days ago

        Good thing they weren’t specifically talking about billboards and instead were speaking to the much broader spectrum of advertising strategies.

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          Good thing you aren’t them so its not up to you to say what they were talking about.