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The aggregate effect of advertising is to bring about wide sharing of tastes. The actual social function of advertising is not to mold taste in any particular way, nor to debase it.... It does not matter what people want to buy as long as they want to buy enough of the same thing to make mass production possible. Advertising helps to unify taste, to de-individualize it and thus to make mass production possible.
Ernest van den Haag
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Ernest van den Haag
Born:
September 15, 1914
Died:
March 21, 2002
(aged 87)
Bio:
Ernest van den Haag was a Dutch-American sociologist, social critic, and John M. Olin Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Policy at Fordham University. He was best known for his contributions to National Review.
Known for:
The death penalty (1983)
The Jewish mystique (1969)
The U.N., in or out? (1987)
Passion and social constraint (1963)
U.S. ends and means in Central America (1988)
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