
Barbie and Mattel as Millennial Pavlovian Conditioning
The Blindboy Podcast
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The Effect of Reaganomics on Millennials
Mattel targeted young children with program length commercials to sell us toys, 40 years have passed. Reagan's policies created a domino effect that put millennials in an economic position where we don't have the trappings of adulthood. Now Mattel are coming back a second time round, 40 years later, and it's explicit they've said it since 2018,. They're focusing now on IP intellectual property, they've groomed us. We can rekindle these feelings of childhood comfort in them, with he-man and fucking heart wheels and burning. Barbie is the proof, the biggest movie of the year by a landslide and directed at people in their late twenties and thirties. I'll
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