Comments on: Organized chaos: a tale of an Indian city http://indusubaiya.com/2007/10/31/organized-chaos-a-tale-of-an-indian-city/ [dot com] Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:51:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Baron Von Luxxury http://indusubaiya.com/2007/10/31/organized-chaos-a-tale-of-an-indian-city/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Baron Von Luxxury Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:47:00 +0000 http://bigalittlea.us/dev/indublog/?p=68#comment-13 Fantastic piece, much food for thought here. I love the idea of using the shame and fear tactics of the advertising industry to promote positive change. Indeed one of the reasons I was frustrated in my ad agency days was the feeling that so many great strategies and tactics to encourage a certain type of behavior were being focused on selling vodka, not creating a better world. Simplistic, sure, but it seemed like a waste of intellectual capital (and $ capital). <br/><br/>Also, related to your point about obesity, I just heard on NPR yesterday that Disneyland is shutting down "It's A Small World" for a year for reconstruction. Turns out the 1960's engineering didn't quite scale with (and can no longer support the weight of) 21st century elephantine Americans! <br/><br/>Now...come home! We miss you here!<br/><br/>xx,<br/>b Fantastic piece, much food for thought here. I love the idea of using the shame and fear tactics of the advertising industry to promote positive change. Indeed one of the reasons I was frustrated in my ad agency days was the feeling that so many great strategies and tactics to encourage a certain type of behavior were being focused on selling vodka, not creating a better world. Simplistic, sure, but it seemed like a waste of intellectual capital (and $ capital).

Also, related to your point about obesity, I just heard on NPR yesterday that Disneyland is shutting down “It’s A Small World” for a year for reconstruction. Turns out the 1960’s engineering didn’t quite scale with (and can no longer support the weight of) 21st century elephantine Americans!

Now…come home! We miss you here!

xx,
b

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