Based as always Sinclair Lewis. For anyone not familiar with his books check out Elmer Gantry and It can’t Happen Here.
Elmer Gantry is a terrific book! So what the hell’s wrong with me, that I’ve never read It Can’t Happen Here — gotta rectify that.
His takes on evangelical hypocrisy and reactionary fascism are, sadly, evergreen.
Said another way, “Advertising causes need.”
Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.
It pollutes any environment it’s conducted in, and causes secondary harms to non-participants by incentivising insecure hoarding of PII.
PII: Personal Identifiable Information, presumably. A new acronym to me, but needed, thanks.
Advertising, even without PII, is blasting people with brain worms. I abhor it, always have. It’s been 60+ years and I can still remember every word of the Winston jingle from TV ads. I was just a kid, but there’s no way to evict it from my head.
Lemmy and the tiniest personal blogs are the only media you can consume that doesn’t blast brain worms.
I would vote to allow smoking indoors again if it meant no more ads.
