Why is there so much money in advertising if media doesn't condition people? My conclusion, having watched a lot of this sort of confusion over the years in re

Why is there so much money in advertising if media doesn't condition people? My conclusion, having watched a lot of this sort of confusion over the years in researchers, philosophers, and thinkers of all sorts, is that there is a connection, but the mode of operation is very subtle, and what it's operating on is very, very complex. It's like an alien researcher from a planet without computers even remotely resembling ours is trying to figure out human software, notes that '=' seems to be associated with the 'assignment' operation, then gets confused when injecting a whole bunch of '=' randomly into a codebase causes the program to stop, effectively suppressing most of the 'assignment.' We're only beginning to scratch the surface on the human psyche and its interaction with culture.