Well Here’s A Fairy Tale You Don’t Hear Everyday

Steve Hall

Sep. 16, 2011
1 min read

In an effort to call attention to child trafficking, an epidemic that’s not just occurring overseas in strange lands but right here in America, this PSA from JWT New York for End Child Prostitution and Trafficking takes on an eerie tone after the first 20 seconds or so. What starts out as an innocent, comfortable fairy tale slowly turns into a nightmare. And it’s made even more nightmarish because it’s read by the same little girl who, seconds before, was enjoying the bliss of what set out to be an innocent tale.

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People who aren’t genuinely good are almost never cruel in obvious ways — they operate through these 10 conversational patterns subtle enough to make you doubt your own read of them

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Most people don’t realize that meditation doesn’t teach you who you are – it teaches you who you’re not, and the terrifying freedom that comes from realizing you’ve been defending an identity you never chose

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