I'm not sure what you mean by "advertising" here, but the way you state the goal of advertising is too close to the general goal of communication to make a blan

I'm not sure what you mean by "advertising" here, but the way you state the goal of advertising is too close to the general goal of communication to make a blanket ban on advertising quite totalitarian. And I say this as someone with an instinctual dislike for advertising and practically any sort of opportunistic promotion/marketing.