Pixelated Semantics

Lies are Truth

Swedish organisation "A Non Smoking Generation" has covered Stockholm in posters claiming that smoking stunts penis growth, that second-hand smoke is killing birds, that girls usually start smoking because they're stupid, and that cigarette filters are filled with mouse excrement, along with "other lies aimed at getting kids to stop smoking". The organisation wants to "raise awareness about how the tobacco industry always promotes its products, through lies... Our lies are so exaggerated that we hope they will make people stop and think, and then come to our website to find the truth." An interesting paradigm, that raising the level of dishonesty will result in greater truth. Most parents will also confirm that lying to children creates enormous disrespect - and the response is often rebellion in precisely the direction being circumscribed.

Item posted by AutoEditor at 1:19 pm ::