But ads in real life do not prevent me from going on about my day. They do, in a suffuse, incremental but no less inexorable manner, in fact make "that place",

But ads in real life do not prevent me from going on about my day. They do, in a suffuse, incremental but no less inexorable manner, in fact make "that place", "out there" -- meaning the city in which I live -- all the more uninviting and inhospitable. Like I don't even own the backs of my own eyeballs.