The Marketing of Mayhem

Once upon a time all advertising was sometimes labeled “Madison Avenue.”

Fun fact: MAD Magazine once had its corporate offices on Madison Avenue, and they always called it “MADison Avenue.” Some of MAD’s contributors, Jack Rickard for example, left jobs in advertising to work for MAD.

War-waging and propaganda are joined at the hip.

Once upon a time the United States of America waged a bit of war under the name “Operation Just Cause.” In at least one cynical mind it was posited that a better appellation might have been “Operation Just Because.”

Now an undeclared war conducted by rogue elements of that same United States goes by the name “Operation Epic Fury.” Many more appropriate names occur to the same cynical mind behind “Operation Just Because.”

Operation Pew! Pew! Pew!

Operation Keep Your Enemies and Make New Ones

Operation Bibi Guns

Operation Blow Up Stuff Real Good

Operation Schoolchildren Unaliver

Operation Democracy Deaththroes

Operation Jeffrey Epstein Died for My Sins

…and at least ten thousand more.

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We desperately need Operation War Is Bad, and Operation Life is Sacred, with no cynicism, no hidden agenda. Please join this just cause!