Comments on: Lolita and Woolworths: the advantages of education http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/02/02/lolita-and-woolworths-the-advantages-of-education/ no soup, no clouds Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:31:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jonathan Salem Baskin http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/02/02/lolita-and-woolworths-the-advantages-of-education/#comment-106 Jonathan Salem Baskin Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:57:51 +0000 http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/02/02/lolita-and-woolworths-the-advantages-of-education/#comment-106 What I find more frightening that the ignorance (or lazy management) at Woolworth's are the inconsistent responses from consumers. Lots of the chat posts read something like "so what, Lolita is a word, so why all the fuss?" If consumers are no better educated than the marketers, this creates a strange dynamic for how commerce is conducted. There's always going to be a special interest group ready to protest the improper uses of semi-colons...but where is the broad, general understanding of history, culture, right vs. wrong, yadda yadda, upon which we rely to run not just commerce, but society overall? Probably a bit of an overkill...awareness of Nabokov isn't synonymous with, say, memory of WWII or something, but once you dive into the details of even the most basic educational tenet, you start to get some weird variations... ...interesting stuff. Good post. I've written a bit about the marketing implications of it all at DIM BULB, if you'd like to check it out: http://dimbulb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/doomed-to-repea.html What I find more frightening that the ignorance (or lazy management) at Woolworth’s are the inconsistent responses from consumers. Lots of the chat posts read something like “so what, Lolita is a word, so why all the fuss?” If consumers are no better educated than the marketers, this creates a strange dynamic for how commerce is conducted. There’s always going to be a special interest group ready to protest the improper uses of semi-colons…but where is the broad, general understanding of history, culture, right vs. wrong, yadda yadda, upon which we rely to run not just commerce, but society overall? Probably a bit of an overkill…awareness of Nabokov isn’t synonymous with, say, memory of WWII or something, but once you dive into the details of even the most basic educational tenet, you start to get some weird variations…

…interesting stuff. Good post. I’ve written a bit about the marketing implications of it all at DIM BULB, if you’d like to check it out: http://dimbulb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/doomed-to-repea.html

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