France — an example of the Plutocratic Establishment's power

© 2020 Peter Free

 

12 July 2020

 

 

If you think that humanity is going to save itself . . .

 

. . . from the planetary ills that it creates, you are arguably deluded.

 

 

Mind control as a stumbling block

 

The following example is sponsored by the French Establishment:

 

 

A Dutch bicycle company’s TV advert that aired without controversy in Germany and The Netherlands has fallen foul of the French advertising regulator for “creating a climate of anxiety” by supposedly denigrating the car industry.

 

The 30-second VanMoof advert had to be pulled from French TV screens, said the Autorité de Régulation Professionnelle de la Publicité (ARPP) because of “discredit [to] the automobile sector.”

 

The TV advert superimposes dystopian images of air pollution and gridlock over panning shots of shiny motor cars, before warping into a pool of liquid metal that cues up the ad’s hero: a VanMoof electric bike.

 

The French advertising code, administered by ARPP, prohibits the exploitation of fear and suffering in advertisement.

 

VanMoof has declined to amend the advert.

 

© 2020 Carlton Reid, Bicycle Company’s TV Ad Pulled By French Advertising Regulator For ‘Discrediting Automobile Sector’, Forbes (30 June 2020)

 

 

You can watch that clever Dutch advertisement — here

 

 

VanMoof, Time to ride the future, YouTube (06 June 2020)

 

 

Bike versus gas-spewer — who's gonna win?

 

The Plutocratic Establishment that creates most of humanity's problems is the same one that uses law, propaganda, troops and police to hide them.

 

 

The moral? — We're going down on our ship of resigned sheep

 

Lotta wool gonna be in the water.

 

Maybe brainy porpoises will take over.

 

Especially if they learn to knit. (That's a pun about the psychology of community.)