Life in America without advertising and foreign oil
A new pill to get to boost the lack of action to use made-in-usa alternative energy.
Poof, a Magic Pill. It will eliminate advertising fast, fast, FAST!
Who needs advertising?
It's nice to know that you can have the whitest teeth, the freshest breath, the snazziest car, the healthiest dog, the greenest grass and the lowest mortgage.
But do you need to hear it from a disembodied voice talking to you from a speaker underneath a big-screen TV? Or from your car radio? Or on a pop-up ad that intrudes on your computer screen time and time again as you try to get some real work done?
Advertising is flash without flavor, shadow without substance, corporate hoopla without the personal connection.
As an adman for more than 35 years, I have been working on a medical breakthrough - a pill that eliminates advertising. Consumers can swallow a dose once a year and their system and mind will reject all commercials and ads -- since almost all advertising is useless anyway.
The public will be immune to the pushy and the cushy, the modern-day snake-oil vendors who use 21st Century mumbo-jumbo to sell things the old-fashioned way - by making it sound like you can't live without them.
It will mean that citizens will no longer experience those wonderful opportunities to be bombarded with tasteless hints, pleas, dull sells, hard sells, pitches, palaver and endless computer generated zoomy graphics.
In other words, it wouldn't change things very much - except that your life would be better. It would mean you could make your decisions based on need and not by market-driven, brand-name-pushing, slick and silly promotions.
I finally came up with the answer. A pill -- called Zapadsforeal©. It's the pill that will give you a clear head - and improve your ability to hear messages you've never heard before
ZAPADSFOREAL© suppresses the urge to spend hard-earned money on phony nostrums, weight loss equipment and overpriced status symbol merchandise.
ZAPADSFOREAL© can be used by parents in the treatment of buying $150. sneakers endorsed by overpaid, pampered, whiny, un-sportsmanlike celebrities. A chance for kids to be better humans than their so-called heroes. Particularly kids who feel theyre unlucky not to be born 78"
ZAPADSFOREAL© curtails all interest in France and Made-In-France products.
SIDE BENEFITS. Brain space preserved by expunging useless advertising from creeping into your memory bank will be replaced by fond memories of good old fashioned American values, integrity and patriotism.
When it comes to advertising, I know what Im talking about. Ie wrote the book on it - literally. "Anybody Can Be In Advertising...It Beats Working For a Living," Im hoping I will be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for my medical breakthrough that will a.) help prevent the wholesale destruction of the world, b). lowering of people's tastes, c.) killing off new ideas, d) keep more useless products from ending up in the homes of naïve consumers and e.) scale back legalized fraud.
But what will the fallout be when I begin to distribute this pills that render the $150 billion-a-year ad industry obsolete?
What will be the obstacles?
Who can he count on but the public?
And what resistance, roadblocks, and new legislation banning his pill could I expect from politicians, corporations, networks and ad agencies when they find out they cannot peddle billions of dollars of their messages?
This scenario isn't so far fetched.
Right now, farmers and ethanol producers have a real magic pill of their own . The big spenders with their ties to big oil - they don't want little guys to get a competitive foothold - especially with an alternative energy product that is far superior to what they have to offer.
In other words, they don't want competition cutting into their piece of the pie. Farmers are the last of a pioneer breed. They're among the few Americans left who actually make a living on their own. They don't earn their pence as a cog in a corporate wheel. They earn their daily bread and butter by growing wheat for the bread and churning milk for the butter that goes on their table - and the tables of Americans coast to coast.
But farmers and ethanol producers together -- the people who use corn to create a product that will fuel our cars and trucks without the excess baggage of being tied to Middle East despots and foreign oil dependency - the hardest-working and most forward-thinking people in the U.S. have something to say -- they just can't get their message out.
Use of home grown Ethanol fuel will cure what ails America.
It'll make a greater and more independent America by pumping up the market with a fuel that will supplement and eventually supplant oil. Who needs oil anyway? Only the mega-companies that grow fat, happy and rich by working deals with Middle East petroleum barons. making them tune out what
They'll make a greater and more independent America by pumping up the market with a fuel that will supplement and eventually supplant oil.
"Shouldn't we all be trying to kick our gasoline habit and use American-made renewable fuels like e85?" Pennies from every pumped fuel dollar are fueling terrorist actions, and we aren't doing a damn thing about it.
But, WHY ALL THE SUPER CAUTIOUS NON-ACTION TOWARDS MARKETING ETHANOL and the non-rush to reach the American public with the alternative fuels message?
Why are Washington politicians, automobile manufacturers, oil companies, and energy based non-profit organizations reluctant to market ethanol with the same competitive ferocity they market gasoline for cars?
If you think the era of the rugged American pioneer is over, think again. You can't be the first person to use a telephone, type on a computer or drive a car. But you can become an energy pioneer in using and blending ethanol to power your vehicle.
It's an opportunity to become the first person on your block - or in your neighborhood - or maybe in your entire city or town - to take the pioneering step of pushing ethanol use. Pump Made-in-USA E85 ethanol. It's the patriotic thing to do.
IN YOUR FACE PATRIOTISM
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Introducing a series of incendiary poster art to provoke public emotion and get to the stark truth, about the connection between terrorism and foreign oil. Sure to be banned in Baghbad . Suicide to post in Saudi Arabia. DOWNLOAD THE FIRST OF THE SERIES Pump With Pride AMade In USA Fuels to see how to use "Patriotism Against Apathy" - Download Foil Founder Stan Cotton's painted face.
BOCA RATON, FL, Sept. 16 -- Stan Cotton, the most talked-about man in the fight against Americas foreign oil dependence, has done it again.
The outrageous, thought-provoking showman of advertising has created a new series of politically incorrect posters ridiculing and attacking the fact that so much Arab nation oil income winds up in the hands of America-hating terrorists.
These posters are brilliant because they are not only colorful and witty, they make a desperately needed wake-up statement," says Aaron R. Paule a graphics art poster expert. They are worth collecting and hanging up."
Cotton, a veteran adman and author who founded FOIL -- the Foreign Oil Independence League -- on 9/11, began his patriotic campaign in South Dakota two years ago with startling FOIL billboards that state-wide VFW posts sponsored.
Ï use incendiary art to provoke public emotion and get to the stark truth," he says. Using the unacceptable gets attention and results."
FOIL and Cottons goal is to awaken everyday Americans, oil companies, non-profit energy think-tank groups and government bureaucrats to see the vital need to increase home-grown American energy sources -- like ethanol from farm crops, hydrogen-powered cars, solar and other renewable power sources.
The series of five no-holds-barred posters:
_ "Pump Patriots Unite" -- a Mr. Made in USA fuel pump.
_ Less Foreign Oil Means More Jobs"- a flying Uncle Sam whose wings are made of classified job opportunity pages.
_ 9/11 Not a Pretty Picture"- a jetliner whose engines are foreign oil drums heading down to destroy the Statue of Liberty.
_ America Needs an Oil Change" -- a clever dipstick cartoon character battling a foreign-oil
icon.
"Do Not Feed Terrorists" -- an awesome monster gobbling up U.S. dollars by the billions.
Americans need to get angry at the oil situation, using patriotism against apathy," says Cotton.
You can be sure these posters would be banned in Baghdad and sure suicide in Saudi Arabia."
Posters need to be placed in high traffic areas to create the dialogue about America's dependence on foreign oil and the alternatives. Office building, plants, service stations, truck stops, schools, universities and by farmers and producers of alternative fuels.
The posters in all their glory can be viewed at www.joinfoil.org
About Stan Cotton
Not Just Anyone Can Be A Poster Child for outrageous ads but he gets flak, results.
Stan Cotton, ad veteran, author and speaker has it down pat, complete with crutches. Advertising crutches that is.Stan the man of the real working ad is now the man most talked about in the energy reform business.
Outrageous, thought provoking, but most of all effective. For over 35 years he turns the industry, any industry, on it's ear...just to hear what he has to say next. And what he has to say will create a paradigm of thinking that makes every consumer reach into his pocket and plunk down the money.
Just a lot of hype? No. Hype is a four letter word to Stan Cotton. Real advertising means getting at the stark naked truth and then putting it out there for everyone to emotionalize.
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