Astroturf v. Coke

See the point is this: if you have never previously heard of Coke Studio Pakistan, but you have heard of the latest James Bond movie 'Spectre,' then you ought to realise that the reason for this is that one of them is being actively promoted, and the other is not. Coke often backs broad social benefit things, but doesn't push them. And for good reason.

'Doctor' Madeleine Swann, in the new

SPECTRE movie

 

Some of the singers and musicians in the video clip in the last blogpost are 'not Muslim.' If you are a Christian or a secularist in Pakistan today, maybe, it isn't as safe as standing on the street corner in Chicago after dark... No wait, that doesn't work. lol.

 

The commercial end-game for Coke and for the Bond franchise is the same - making profits. Even so, over many years I have noticed that for all the consumer activism of various not-for-profit groups, and how these loudly bring to the public attention miscreant corporates, Coca Cola is almost never among those who one can genuinely say exploits their market position in surreptitious ways.

 

'Astroturfing' - the name given to marketing tactics that create a false impression of a widespread particular view, IE, a widely-held view about something, is not anything that can be applied to something like, say, the pre-release marketing for a film such as the up-coming James Bond 'Spectre.' However, and I say this in consideration of anyone who might read here and who is among one of the marginal or marginal-ish sex style individuals, however -, the immediate last Bond movie was heavily laden with astroturfing. There is no such agenda evident in the current pre-release marketing but you can see, there is pre-lease marketing going on.

Astroturf

'a playful outdoor use...' - as per the

marketing literature

 

Now I don't particularly view such a thing as sinister because it is really drawing a very long bow to relate the gay activism agenda with things like Zionist manipulation of world society - even though, that, at heart, is the idea that is floated about the gay agenda by those who are the most vehemently opposed to it. Which isn't to say pressure groups do not appropriate social movements for their own ends - but I am quite certain the gay agenda wasn't invented by Zionists or the ubiquitous Illuminati!

 

We are a long way from any of the big news agencies being actual disseminators of actual news events... Sadly. Reuters is close to being the old style news agency up to a point.

 

Is the situation dangerous to the private individual?

 

It is highly dangerous.

 

In my view, it is the single most risky thing going on in the world today and which can harm or kill you and severely disrupt your life even if it doesn't kill you.

 

But how do you pass a law against it? You can't. Therefore the logical conclusion of where we are headed and how we're going to get there is set in stone. All is not lost for the bright, though. Watch this space.

Real flowers are happening where I live right now,
being the Southern Hemisphere's Spring wildflower season

 

Now I know there are some here who are fans of Richard Dawkins, or may have, like me, been fans of his at one time in the past, but the question I have for the Professor is this:

 

'What stops you from lying to me?' 

 

Astroturfing is extraordinarily dangerous. And it does go on, and for mine, as soon as someone does it deliberately, it calls into question entirely, their standard of ethics.