What If We Made Advertising Illegal?
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The modern advertising apparatus exists to bypass rational thought and trigger emotional responses that lead to purchasing decisions. A sophisticated machine designed to short-circuit your agency, normalized to the point of invisibility.
“But it's free speech!”
Bullshit. No one is entitled to yell at you “GET 20% OFF THIS UNDERWEAR YOU GLANCED AT YESTERDAY” with a dopamine megaphone in your bedroom. And to track 90% of your life to know when and how to say it. That's not free speech, that's harassment.
Been thinking about this article for months now.
My mortgage was recently purchased by Rocket Mortgage1. As a result, I now receive mail from them several times a month.
Each envelope looks identical, but the contents are either (a) urgent information related to my mortgage, or (b) an advertisement to take out a HELOC through Rocket Mortgage. Therefore, I have no choice but to at least open every single envelope to see what it is.
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I don't really get how this process works, and I don't really care. It, also, is a broken system. All of this is a broken system. ↩
