They outlawed subliminal messaging on the tube, but did they ever really stop it?
By the time people were really talking about subliminals (I'm thinking early 80s here), the marketing people and psychologists had moved on from the techniques they had been using. They just found better ways to shift minds without using the ultra-short visual insertions (which could be discovered by people slowing down film, etc) and the slightly sub-threshold audio stuff. They found more subtle and streamlined ways of hooking people.
(Wilson Bryan Key's books were my first real "rabbit hole" and I did a lot of reading on subliminals after I saw him interviewed on Tom Snyder's show.)
By the time people were really talking about subliminals (I'm thinking early 80s here), the marketing people and psychologists had moved on from the techniques they had been using. They just found better ways to shift minds without using the ultra-short visual insertions (which could be discovered by people slowing down film, etc) and the slightly sub-threshold audio stuff. They found more subtle and streamlined ways of hooking people.
(Wilson Bryan Key's books were my first real "rabbit hole" and I did a lot of reading on subliminals after I saw him interviewed on Tom Snyder's show.)