Postcards from the Fair #2
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Not buying...
A lot of people go to the fair to buy stuff, or, more accurately, to be sold stuff. There is a definite seduction/surrender dynamic going on here, with the pitchman selling the experience of selling as much as the products.
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Resistance is weakening...
And like an experienced street hustler, the pitchman's never ending patter insinuates its way into the mark's brain until resistance is futile.
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Surrender!
This is a long-standing tradition, as old as history, and still thriving in spite of The Shopping Network and Amazon.
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