"On the Radar"

Every morning when I get up, I spend a little "me time" going over my To-Do list for the day and reading a few articles that I think will help me do a better job as well as inform my clients. Today I was amazed to read about a stealthing marketing initiative that took place by a major advertiser that is on the cusp of something out of Twilight Zone. A&E, is promoting a new show called Paranormal State where some speakers that looked like hypersonic sound beams, a device which uses your skull as a speaker that is, transmits soundwaves that resonate against whatever surface they hit. So, when the sound hits your head, it sounds like it's coming form inside your brain, creepy!! So if times weren't bad enough, now we have major television shows subliminally sending messages into your head as you walk down the street. Am i the only one that sees something very, very wrong about this?

A blogger at GAWKER shares his personal experience:

"Walking westward on Prince St. between Mulberry and Mott Streets, I heard a woman's voice in my head whispering, "Who's there? Who's there?" Not like I "heard" a woman's voice like when I wear flared jeans with skinny shoes and I "hear" a woman's voice in my head say, "Wait, you've got to be kidding?" but like an actual woman's voice in my head. This usually means I've had a psychotic break. The billboard says 73% of Americans believe and I'm assuming that that means 73% of Americans believe in ghosts. So if that's true, why try to convert the skeptical/not crazy 27% by beaming voices into their heads? That's just greedy. Also it leads to a lingering sense of serious mental violation. How soon will it be until in addition to the Do Not Call list, we'll have a Do Not Beam Commercial Messages Into My Head list?"

There are certain areas that should just not be forced upon people that are walking down the street.