On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> [WS:] An excellent point, indeed. I think that was what most people
> found especially insulting about the Soviet-style propaganda, being
> treated like a bunch of morons.... What I find difficult to understand,
> however, is that people rejected these formulaic messages of Soviet
> propaganda, but swallow similar or greater idiocies raw when it comes to
> advertisement and commercials.
Perhaps, following your own point, because propaganda insulted us and commercials flatter us?
Michael