Wherein the trade journal Marketing Science brings us further proof of the Pop Cult.
H/t @Swordo9 on Tiwtter:
The marketers who’ve pushed the concept of brand evangelism weren’t just using a figure of speech. Man’s innate religious impulse isn’t being snuffed out. It’s being captured and perverted by international corporations.
Fitzsimons, who used to be a practicing Irish Catholic, notes that a major aspect of religion is the feeling of community and being able to communicate to the world that you belong to a certain group of people and value a certain set of beliefs, often by attending religious services.
Now, instead of religious worship, many consumers buy Apple (Stock Quote: AAPL) products.
Forget the danger of monopoly power. The real reason why unrestrained capitalism is just as evil as socialism is that the former ends up producing golden calves that are worshiped by consoomers instead of products that are valued for their utility.
When atheists abandon faith in God, they don’t believe in nothing. Increasingly, they invest their faith in manmade institutions.
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