i found both of todays articles very thought
provoking. the idea of mental real-estate and a
"commons of the mind" is a crazy one in the sense that
much of what we currently have stored in our minds is
not up to us. Yes, we as individuals get to decide how
much time we wish to allot to certain things, but much
of the information that is floating around in our
world waiting to make its way into our minds, was
placed there by someone to influence and affect us in
a certain way. There are an infinite amount of
possbilities for the information the we could
potentially have stored in our minds, yet everyone
has heard of britney spears, tom cruise, star wars,
johnson & johnson, etc. creating a commons of the
mind. This is because someone, somewhere, decided to
put that information out there to float around and
stake a claim on our mental real-estate, usually to
make some money. Its crazy to think about what kind of
things we would have on our mind and stored in our
brain if there was no such thing as advertising.
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