• Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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      37 minutes ago

      Haha what? I’m not burning billboards and slaughtering CEOs. I’m just sick to death of all these ads. Advertising is a distributed global brainwashing campaign, by the wealthy, against the working class. They don’t hire psychologists to exploit our lizard brains for no reason, and that’s why it needs to be outlawed.

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        11 hours ago

        That’s a generalization. The White Rose was doing “advertising”, and I think that’s all but “by the wealthy, against the working class”.

        Advertising has its place and can be beneficial to society, it just needs regulations (admittedly, A LOT of them).

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          2 minutes ago

          The advertising industry had their chance to run an ethical business model.

          Now we have corporate spy agencies and propaganda networks.

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          5 minutes ago

          You mean that local mom and pop store that was briefly allowed to exist to maintain the illusion before they got crushed by a corporate juggernaut?

          When a society allows itself to be psychologically manipulated in such an all pervasing manner, the people participate in their own subjugation and call it freedom.

          There exists one of the most powerful groups on the planet who considers it their right to sneak inside your mind to twist your decision making ability to whatever amoral ends they like. Rather than revulsion and disgust, your reaction to this is “ok, but maybe just a little less than they do now.”

          What a surprise.

          No. There is nowhere in the world more sacred than our own minds, and no one else has the right to worm their way inside, en masse, to alter them as they will.