re. the quote on communist propaganda, this is fascinating to me. I immediately draw the parallel to capitalist propaganda: as much as advertising is to persuade you to buy, it’s also meant to humiliate you into a) feeling that you are lacking the advertised product and b) convince you that everybody else is not lacking it, so you should keep quiet & not complain… just a different way of assenting to power, coercion, and lies.

soup-can iconography: Campbell’s re-did their soup can wrapper design sometime in the late 90’s; they moved the dividing line between the red and white blocks higher up on the can, to make room for an image and more information, “healthy choice” banners, etc.

HOWEVER the one can they did NOT change the design on was the “Condensed Tomato Soup”.

Here it is on their website, front and center!

obviously this was not because Tomato Soup is campbell’s best-selling product. they know what basket their eggs are in…