Hey, you started this. You called me, by careless and casual implication, a utopian. I don't take kindly to being called naive for maintaining a inflexible yet

Hey, you started this. You called me, by careless and casual implication, a utopian. I don't take kindly to being called naive for maintaining a inflexible yet reasonable and policy-driven stance on curbing the toxic impact of advertising in our society, especially from people who claim they've "graduated" from my current stance. My utter disdain of ads isn't really tied to their impact on my life. I'm more concerned with all the manipulative ways in which they pressure people less prepared to deal with them than me into short-term relief by purchasing wasteful crap. By getting some content "for free", I am actually being subsidized by some poor sap throwing their money away on some fad propped up by a media campaign concocted by a team of advertisers and sellout psychologists. Moreover, this worthless conspicuous consumption is a huge driver of the kind of activity that damages the environment, so there's that angle too.