Amsterdamize » ad http://amsterdamize.com With love, from the certified Bicycle Capital of the World Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:08:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Lost Irony http://amsterdamize.com/2009/10/15/lost-irony/ http://amsterdamize.com/2009/10/15/lost-irony/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:38:32 +0000 Amsterdamize http://amsterdamize.com/?p=150 post thumbnail

Mikael provided a good read today with his post ‘Sacred Bull In Society’s China Shop’, addressing the distorted notion of priorities in traffic safety, or, as commentator Paul Hayward put it so eloquently, “a shitload of Double Think and Cognitive Dissonance going about the land”. You should really read it.

Then I flipped on the telly and whaddayaknow…the first thing I saw was this ad by Volkswagen for their ‘BlueMotion Technology‘:

I don’t even know where to start looking in the Lost & Found section of Irony. Or the Department of Cognitive Dissonance, for that matter…

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