Onslaught - 2007 - 2023

Well of course I love this next commercial and the values it stands for, but as I've said in the comments over here and here, and indeed to the client Unilever (the owners of the Dove brand), I don't think it's honest for a multinational to put 'keep-it real-credentials' in the 'Campaign for real beauty' while they sell skin whitening creams to among others, Indian subcontinent and South East Asian countries that are by nature blessed with dark skin.

Just doing the focus groups for these kind of products can be quite tough for those of us who think a bit about the effects on the culture of the societies that we make advertising for. Take Thailand for example, based on qualitative research, some office secretaries (for example) will choose who they take to lunch in a group based on the whiteness of skin.

The darker skins are considered too 'rural' for those who want to climb the whiter skinned ethnic Chinese communities that effectively run S.E. Asia in business terms.

The aspiring English classes also used to take a dim view of darker skin in previous centuries because it indicated an agrarian lifestyle working in the fields. So I'm not trying to speed up cultural and media literacy development in these countries (or maybe I am), but I am suggesting to Unilever that specifically on it's skin whitening creams, it puts a disclaimer on ALL those products that Unilever embraces skin of all colours.

Otherwise its a bit hypocritical to be a campaigner for real beauty, when it's fake beauty and discrimination that powers one of the fastest growing skin care categories in many parts of the developing world.

Update: I see that the original video was pulled for copyright reasons but that a remix is now resurfacing for the same issues of resource exploitation but this time the targets are Nestle.

Thai Women Go Crazy For A White Vagina

Most people in Thailand are dark skinned but as the Chinese plutocracy run the country the advertising reflects their fairer skin. I've written extensively about the pernicious effects of skin whitening creams because if you ever do advertising focus groups you can listen to impressionable young office women choosing who they go to lunch with based on their skin colour as money, career progression and hanging out with the right people is all that matters in the dog eat soi dog world of commercial materialism.

More over here

Update: Original video censored.

Order From Chaos

The evidence so far is that the police killed Mark Duggan and lied about his gun shooting an officer. They ignored protesting crowds till they rioted and responded too slowly and meekly to retake control.

Order From Chaos (or Hegelian dialectic or divide and rule if you want more examples) is how you control populations. Create a problem, divided the people and then ride to the rescue with a solution that was always the original intent but would never be accepted in times of peace and prosperity.

The British Police are in on it. The Media are in on it and The Politicians are in on it. If the penny hasn't dropped now that our elites are completely venal snouts in the trough it's unlikely you ever will.

I'm appalled at the rioting, 

I'm appalled by Facebook comments like 'time to get Syrian' on the looters? 

Really. Torture and indiscriminate death squads? 

I tell you there are groups of people who benefit from division. 

They have an economic crisis on their hands created by London City (a private corporation) looters who clean out with a keyboard tap. Decades of  profit first  people second mismanagement has created a social class of near feral youth.

I'm think they are playing the public like a violin. It's orchestrated years in advance and heavy police handling has kept it from erupting till the time to distract people was needed.

The people who understand this least are the rioters and the 'hang 'em 'n shoot 'em' crowd. Both are worlds apart from each other because people in the middle can see we're all connected. The media aren't connecting the dots.

I know it's easier from another continent to see this but we had a hundred killed by Royal Thai Army sniper head-shots last year after a suspicious department store fire. 

The people who create these problems are as carefully selected, trained and bred as the class of animals they create. 

Order from Chaos.

Order Ab Chao.

Onslaught

Well of course I love this next commercial and the values it stands for, but as I've said in the comments over here and here, and indeed to the client Unilever (the owners of the Dove brand), I don't think it's honest for a multinational to put 'keep-it real-credentials' in the 'Campaign for real beauty' while they sell skin whitening creams to among others, Indian subcontinent and South East Asian countries that are by nature blessed with dark skin.

Just doing the focus groups for these kind of products can be quite tough for those of us who think a bit about the effects on the culture of the societies that we make advertising for. Take Thailand for example, based on qualitative research, some office secretaries (for example) will choose who they take lunch with in groups, based on the whiteness of skin.

The darker skins are considered too 'rural' for those who want to climb the whiter skinned ethnic Chinese communities that effectively run S.E. Asia big business.

The aspiring English classes also used to take a dim view of darker skin in previous centuries because it indicated an agrarian lifestyle working in the fields. So I'm not trying to speed up cultural and media literacy development in these countries (or maybe I am), but I am suggesting to Unilever that specifically on it's skin whitening creams, it puts a disclaimer on ALL those products that Unilever embraces skin of all colours.

Otherwise its a bit hypocritical to be a campaigner for real beauty, when it's fake beauty and discrimination that powers one of the fastest growing skin care categories in many parts of the developing world.

Update: I see that the original video was pulled for copyright reasons but that that a remix is now resurfacing for the same issues of resource exploitation but this time the targets are Nestle.