There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.
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People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.
Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.
Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.
Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.
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