French Farmer Advertises Against Advertising | Common Dreams
I saw this post on the Common Dreams website. This French organic farmer’s action is intriguing to me because he is taking a creative approach to combat the destructive nature of modern advertising the promotes consumption. Enjoy the article.
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French Farmer Advertises Against Advertising
“Advertising is manipulating you – React!”
AGEN, France — A French organic farmer has forked out 3,000 euros (4,300 dollars) for a series of billboard advertisements that denounce the evils of advertising.
Twenty-five of the giant ads went up this week across the southwestern town of Agen showing a human brain stuffed with advertising images and carrying the slogan “Advertising is manipulating you – React!”
Fifty-six-year-old farmer Pierre Kung explained that he was implementing the martial arts technique of “using the strength of the adversary to floor him.”
“My aim is simply to get people to ask themselves questions. Because we’ve been brainwashed into thinking that happiness lies in consuming ever more,” he told AFP.
Kung said he sympathized with but was not a member of an ‘anti-advertising’ militant group in Paris who attack billboards and other advertising they say blight the landscape and render the population consumerist sheep.
