The amount of ignorance here (both the post and in the comments) is astounding.
Here's my perspective as a consultant/ freelancer/ small business.
If I don't advertise, I don't get clients, I don't get money, I don't get to put food on my table.
If I do advertise, I get to do these things. And maybe grow my business.
Advertising is necessary, because for people to buy from you, they need to be aware you exist, they have to be interested, and only then they can make a decision to either buy or not.
The massive ideological changes that've taken place over the last 70 years are largely due to the counterculture movement which was subsidized by US agencies. It's a well known fact that Osho, Terrence McKenna, Anton LaVey, Aleister Crowley, Michael Aquino and others had deep connections with the intelligence community.
To claim that it's advertising itself that's bad is to completely miss the point.
One thing is to pass information about a business, completely another to create emotions in people and subconsciously manipulate their opinions on a massive scale as stated in the previous part which you've probably not read. You are proving the point. Thank you.
Cheers!
And you're completely missing the point that all decisions we make as people are based on emotions, while logic and reasoning remain dormant as a rationalizing mechanism.
Of course if I want to sell my services or my client's products, I will appeal to emotions, just as you are appealing to emotions in your original post.
Why do you think so many agree with you?
It's because you're presenting your opinion in a biased way, which elicits feelings of outrage and agreement with you against "Them" (whether you believe it's the Illuminati, the Rothschilds, the NWO, NSA, CIA, Chinese, or Reptilian aliens).
The reality of the situation is much more simple. Businesses and business people advertise because it brings in money. And they do it in the way that is most effective - by appealing to emotions.
Just as they have always done.