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jumpy · 08-08-06, 04:14 AM

It was a slow day yesterday, so I ended up reading practically that whole site. Hehe, it struck me as all being a bit 'Chumley-Warner:Women, Know your Place' styley.
Compared to todays media and publications all of the ones from that site look very simplistic and with todays exposure to ever increasing multimedia content, to a modern eye it looks very dated, hence some of it can seem quite amusing. I suppose this does not detract from the original intent of the information, just some of its current relevence. At no time did I draw a comparison between myself today and people back then in terms of sophistication, rather by todays standards I don't believe everything I read in a tabloid (or other) newspaper etc. However, with this last in mind, my question was how much more subtle and insidious is advertising and propoganda now it has come of age, so to speak, than it was then and how much are we influenced by it wheather we are aware of it or not? - going to war with iraq on the premise of 45 minute WMD strike capabillity, for instance.

I guess I'll be thinking twice before making anymore light-hearted threads; some days it don't seem worth posting round here no more with so many pedants about the place... oh well.
Evidently subsim.com is suffering from a serious loss of a sense of humour

Perhaps some of our captains have been out on patrol in the doldrums for too long?

08-08-06, 04:14 AM	#8
jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	It was a slow day yesterday, so I ended up reading practically that whole site. Hehe, it struck me as all being a bit 'Chumley-Warner:Women, Know your Place' styley. Compared to todays media and publications all of the ones from that site look very simplistic and with todays exposure to ever increasing multimedia content, to a modern eye it looks very dated, hence some of it can seem quite amusing. I suppose this does not detract from the original intent of the information, just some of its current relevence. At no time did I draw a comparison between myself today and people back then in terms of sophistication, rather by todays standards I don't believe everything I read in a tabloid (or other) newspaper etc. However, with this last in mind, my question was how much more subtle and insidious is advertising and propoganda now it has come of age, so to speak, than it was then and how much are we influenced by it wheather we are aware of it or not? - going to war with iraq on the premise of 45 minute WMD strike capabillity, for instance. I guess I'll be thinking twice before making anymore light-hearted threads; some days it don't seem worth posting round here no more with so many pedants about the place... oh well. Evidently subsim.com is suffering from a serious loss of a sense of humour Perhaps some of our captains have been out on patrol in the doldrums for too long? __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life Last edited by jumpy; 08-08-06 at 04:16 AM.