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By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car to be respected, or buy the latest thing to come along simply to satisfy the desire that has been formed and implanted in us. It is important to appreciate that these disciplinary mechanisms transmit values and truth claims, but not via propositions or cognitive means; rather, the values are transmitted more covertly...This covertness of the operation is also what makes it so powerful: the truths are inscribed in us through the powerful instruments of imagination and ritual.

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James K.A. Smith

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

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Use the imagination to picture only what is good, what is beautiful, what is beneficial, what is ideal, and what you wish to realize. Mentally see yourself receiving what you deeply desire to receive. What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become. Therefore, if you imagine only those things that are in harmony with what you wish to obtain or achieve, all your thinking will soon tend to produce what you want to attain or achieve.

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IV _ The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels.V _ If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man.VI _ If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot.VII _ The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite.

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William Blake

The Complete Poetry and Prose