Re: [LINK] Telstra's Messagebank advertising Scam

From: Tony Barry (me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 18:30:13 EST


At 5:47 PM +1000 21/8/01, Craig Sanders wrote:
>i think that one of the biggest con-jobs perpetrated over the last 50
>years by marketing companies has been to convince people to think of
>themselves as consumers rather than as people or citizens.
>
>i'm not a f&*!ng consumer, there's a LOT more to me than just what i
>buy. i won't be numbered, catalogued, profiled or lumped into some
>demographic grouping.

Here! Here! I too am a human being. (Who remembers the TV series "The
Prisoner"?)

Tony

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