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RL:  I think that there's something very harsh about the society and something rather deadening about ... oh, half-minute in depth news broadcasts and things like that which have more fanfare and more advertising than they have news. And where the kind of drawing that goes along with commercial art, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]]The [[?]] kind of education that advertising seems to give the viewer or listener is very insensitive [[strikethrough]] , and [[/strikethrough]] at the same time there's something very energetic about it. I think it's the energy that the society has that is interesting.

I don't know what kind of an effect this over-simplification has brought about, but most of our communication, somehow or other, is governed by advertising, and they're not too careful about how they tend to instruct us.  I think that may or may not have a deadening effect on the minds of people.  I'm really not sure. One would think that it would, but at the same time almost everybody seems to see through it and not really care what the message is; sort of laugh at it, but still buy the product regardless of what you think of the advertising. But it has made in a way a new landscape for us - billboards and neon signs and all this stuff that we're very familiar with, literature and television, radio.  So that almost all of the landscape, all of our environment [[arrow]]

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