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I can't get over these ads! Who would have thought that we now buy more junk to support a war instead of this:

This was an ad in VOGUE!!! Can you imagine it there now? And this in the Saturday Evening Post:

The War Advertising Council and the War Finance Committee were commissioned to create the largest advertising campaign in history, including ads like these about conserving (MAKE DO...OR DO WITHOUT, what a concept!). For the good of the country. To bring the boys home. To win a war. Now we buy more cars and junk at 0% interest and spend, spend, spend. To win a war. To bring them home.

I am flabbergasted. Our collective memory is unforgivably short-term. But then, I am also wondering about the responsibilities of the-powers-that-be. They were the ones who commissioned these ads and aren't they in some way the ones allowing the new deluge. Why the change?