Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)

Re:Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) by roberdam on Thursday August 29, 2019 @08:36AM (#20828904)

It is amazing how much of what we perceive as part of our culture and is really manufactured by personal and economic interests and we are not even aware of that.

Diamonds:

When the campaign began, in 1967, not quite 5 percent of engaged Japanese women received a diamond engagement ring. By 1972, the proportion had risen to 27 percent. By 1978, half of all Japanese women who were married wore a diamond; by 1981, some 60 percent of Japanese brides wore diamonds. In a mere fourteen years, the 1,500-year Japanese tradition had been radically revised.

Bacon & Eggs for breakfast:

http://levick.com/blog/public-affairs/history-bacon-breakfas...

Some other examples?

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Re:Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) by djpowell on Thursday August 29, 2019 @08:54AM (#20829015)

The same Edward Bernays also did a PR stunt to market cigarettes to women, calling them "torches of freedom", associating women's smoking (which was considered taboo at the time) with feminism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom

It is covered in the Adam Curtis documentary, 'The Century of the Self'.

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