It all starts to make so much more sense once you start mentally replacing the words "marketing" and "advertising" with the end result they're both trying to ac

It all starts to make so much more sense once you start mentally replacing the words "marketing" and "advertising" with the end result they're both trying to achieve: Mind Control. There are varying levels of insidiousness from trying to get you to buy a certain brand of dishsoap, to encouraging you to share more of your personal life on Facebook, all the way up to deliberately poisoning your worldview with hatred and paranoia a la Fox News. In the end though, the goal is always to effect some change in behavior regardless of whether it's in the subject's best interest or not. As a society we would do well to be much more wary of all kinds of advertisement.