[Sigia-l] Hmmmm (wasIA/interaction of Location)

[Sean Lawrence]

Well there are "true" therapeutic processes, then there are systems of
inflation and reinforcement.  I would say that what marketing does, and
hence commodity and service markets do, are create an image of what
people should do as wholesome consumers and then reinforces and inflates
that image and thus the ego construct, sense of self worth or whatever
meme you follow conforms to, thereby making oneself feel as though
they've been a virtuous member of society.  Whether this is therapeutic
is _highly_ debatable and probably left best to a different list
altogether :^)

I would argue, though, that it does, in a way subvert the 'preservation
of the individual' through it's almost mechanistic deconstruction, and
reconstruction of the psyche to fit what is a more normative consumer
profile and in fact does not induce the individual to make choices based
on the best available information.

Disclaimer: the above is quite simplistic, questionable psychology and
shouldn't be taken entirely seriously.

-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org] On Behalf
Of Derek R
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 5:29 PM
To: Sigia-l
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Hmmmm (wasIA/interaction of Location)

Sean wrote:

>| What's next Psychotherapy Driven IA?  IA that 
>| makes me feel better about myself!


It would be difficult to argue that would be a bad thing :-)  The entire
commodity and service market has this as its aim and purpose. Anything
which is subversive to the 'preservation of the individual' is unlikely
to succeed in an open (democratic) economy.
	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

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