This kind of reads like “people in the past lived covered in mud and without color,” which is very far from the truth. There is plenty to be said about misleading advertisements and advertisement saturation into our daily lives, but the bad thing about that isn’t seeing bright colors.
I live in LA and I don’t see 200" screens unless I go downtown. I can’t think of anywhere people step outside their homes and see that, unless they live in Times Square.
People have always made bright colors, both for art and for their clothing and homes. If anything our cities are dull compared to garish taste of the Romans, who slapped color on absolutely everything they could.
They are thousands of years old and have faded; look at recreations and tell me you’ve been to any neighborhood with half as much color. My neighborhood (all beiges and whites), most urban neighborhoods, and virtually all suburban neighborhoods are significantly desaturated and colorless compared to ancient Rome.
According to modern sensibilities of taste in some countries. That hasn’t always been the case. Would you call a torii dull? Was the stained glass in medieval churches less colorful than today? Have you seen how vibrant basically all of nature is? You’re conflating everything bad about advertisements with color itself.
I think attributing that to the use of color is a dramatic over simplification. The capitalization of human psychology stems from one thing and one thing only, our current form of capitalism which prioritizes maximizing short term shareholder return above all else, with long term shareholder return coming in second.
Also, if you’re not going to let me pull the Hitler card in this situation, I can just pull the slavery card. What’s worse, a population with a high rate of depression, or a population with a high rate of literally a slave? (We have that too in the US because forced prison labor is a thing and is considered constitutional at the moment)
Or what about when entire ancient civilizations had their history erased when conquered?
Or what North Korea is right now?
Like, seriously, you’re telling me the use of bright colors is the worst crime ever committed against humanity? We’ve been using colors for thousands of years, you could at least pick something like Sugar that’s actually addictive and causes disease and depression. Or cigarettes which also do that while also fostering poverty cycles. I could come up with so many things worse than using colors.
Yeah Christ, the complaint here is overstimulation and the capitalization/commercialization of peoples’ attention spans, a topic which spans far greater breadth than just “colors”. What a weird specific aspect to zero in on. I don’t disagree that colors attribute to the issue but man, OP needs to take a step back and huff into a paper bag.
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This is some hyperbolic shit right here.
This kind of reads like “people in the past lived covered in mud and without color,” which is very far from the truth. There is plenty to be said about misleading advertisements and advertisement saturation into our daily lives, but the bad thing about that isn’t seeing bright colors.
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I live in LA and I don’t see 200" screens unless I go downtown. I can’t think of anywhere people step outside their homes and see that, unless they live in Times Square.
People have always made bright colors, both for art and for their clothing and homes. If anything our cities are dull compared to garish taste of the Romans, who slapped color on absolutely everything they could.
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They are thousands of years old and have faded; look at recreations and tell me you’ve been to any neighborhood with half as much color. My neighborhood (all beiges and whites), most urban neighborhoods, and virtually all suburban neighborhoods are significantly desaturated and colorless compared to ancient Rome.
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According to modern sensibilities of taste in some countries. That hasn’t always been the case. Would you call a torii dull? Was the stained glass in medieval churches less colorful than today? Have you seen how vibrant basically all of nature is? You’re conflating everything bad about advertisements with color itself.
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I mean, I think Hitler committed worse crimes, just saying. And DuPont. And a lot of other companies/people.
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I think attributing that to the use of color is a dramatic over simplification. The capitalization of human psychology stems from one thing and one thing only, our current form of capitalism which prioritizes maximizing short term shareholder return above all else, with long term shareholder return coming in second.
Also, if you’re not going to let me pull the Hitler card in this situation, I can just pull the slavery card. What’s worse, a population with a high rate of depression, or a population with a high rate of literally a slave? (We have that too in the US because forced prison labor is a thing and is considered constitutional at the moment)
Or what about when entire ancient civilizations had their history erased when conquered?
Or what North Korea is right now?
Like, seriously, you’re telling me the use of bright colors is the worst crime ever committed against humanity? We’ve been using colors for thousands of years, you could at least pick something like Sugar that’s actually addictive and causes disease and depression. Or cigarettes which also do that while also fostering poverty cycles. I could come up with so many things worse than using colors.
Yeah Christ, the complaint here is overstimulation and the capitalization/commercialization of peoples’ attention spans, a topic which spans far greater breadth than just “colors”. What a weird specific aspect to zero in on. I don’t disagree that colors attribute to the issue but man, OP needs to take a step back and huff into a paper bag.
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