12/9/2023 0 Comments Book about subliminal advertising![]() The following photos are clickable, and do give the viewer a better idea of what Key was seeing / claiming to see. I honestly don't recall the ulterior motives Key ascribed to each specific piece of evidence he served up, but most (if not all) of it as been debunked. Here's some of the author's most memorable bits that first come to mind. With more and more skeptics beginning to seriously question Key's theories and evidence, he stuck to his guns, even testifying as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the early 1990s Judas Priest suicides lawsuit. ![]() What started out as deliberately placed "SEX embeds" in the ice cubes of print ads became the word FUCK etched into front page photos on the New York Times drag queens gracing the cover of Playboy Nabisco baking the word SEX into Ritz Crackers HOJO's fried clams taking human form in a twisted orgy, and the Treasury Department hiding the word SEX hidden in Abraham Lincoln's beard on the (old style) $5 bill. In the mid 1980s, while I was freshmen at Baldwin Senior High School, Key's theories were taught as fact, just as they were at colleges and universities across the country. The premise was simple: Madison Avenue, in their blind allegiance to the bottom line, were raping your subconscious mind with an airbrush, titillating your latent homosexuality, and playing off the suicidal tendencies of alcoholics. With each tome, this purported MENSA-level genius ratcheted up the hyperbole. ![]() The first and second tomes were so popular, they became part of American culture and touched off Congressional investigations. ![]()
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