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Taco Bell Launches Cold War Against McDonald's with Propaganda Imagery (adweek.com)
4 points by rsuelzer on March 24, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Wow, I don't how to feel. On one hand it's amazingly inspired, and very well done. On the other, It feels like its a little distasteful.


I think the writer sums it up well: " That's all to say, it depicts a dystopian world, but the whole concept also can't help but come across as some kind of meta wormhole, like a microcosm of capitalism trying to devour itself. A smaller fast-food giant is knocking a bigger goliath for creating a fantastical totalitarian communist state, wherein the greatest strain on individual freedom is uninspired food, and the most dire physical threat to would-be defectors is whatever horror befalls a person who gets hit by a confetti bomb, or jumps into a grimy ball pit. (Though, in fairness, it's always been hard not to wonder what's lurking in the bottoms of those things—they're too colorful to trust.)"




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