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I just want to say, I am so happy you and others here are voicing this opinion on ads. I agree whole heartedly and avoid them like the plague — because they ar

I just want to say, I am so happy you and others here are voicing this opinion on ads. I agree whole heartedly and avoid them like the plague — because they are a plague. A social disease infecting nearly every facet of modern reality, and rotting away at it. In my own spaces, nothing with a logo is allowed to be displayed. This makes for a significantly better feeling space. In the past, people have walked in and made comments like “it feels so good in here!” — I attribute it in large part to eliminating the nonstop psychic bombardment of advertising. When buying new products, I go to significant lengths making sure the item has an ad that can be managed. If I cannot find a product with a logo that’s easily removable, I do not purchase for the most part. If a streaming service shows an ad to me, it goes off or I leave the area. It is simple. Other people do not have the right to intrude in my cognition against my will, ESPECIALLY these gluttonous people running megacorporations. They are reducing consciousness for a quick buck against our will. Put another way, they are injecting their ego and greed into anyone possible against their will. I find it to be a type of psychic assault analogous to certain depraved physical assaults relating to self-propagation. My intuition says ads make us dumber, more compliant, poorer, worse thinkers, more impulse driven, and more subject to external authority; among other pacifying and stupefying impacts. It is a disease worth fighting against.

saiya-jin 5y ago
I haven't used TV for any kind of broadcast, or literally anything that would in any way contain ads for past cca 15 years. TV I have has no wifi connection, never had one, never will have. I've become physically allergic to ads, anywhere. The way they are done reminds me of those drawings showing some nasty fugly stuff being squished into consumer's brain. This causes minor issues sometimes when we visit some friends and they have a TV blasting all the time, with their kids being fairly addicted to general media consumption. Anytime this happens and I see how they are glued to phones or consoles is a stark warning about choosing different path for my small kiddoz. Such a path you can lead them on by example. The amount of time we have thanx to this to spend on more important matters in life is non-trivial.
TheBozzCL 5y ago
Man, I try to explain the diseased nature of the modern advertising and people look at me like I'm crazy. But look at TV/radio broadcasts. Look at the streets you walk on. The websites you browse. It's literally everywhere, and its only purpose is to catch your eye to make you feel like you need to buy stuff. And they will stop at nothing to achieve that, including making you feel inadequate or abusing your weaknesses. And in the last 15 years, we've let these unscrupulous people gather all sorts of data on who we are and what we do, which they use to target us with the ads that manipulate us the best. That is what sounds crazy to me. Preaching to the choir, I know. It amazes me that most people don't seem to care all that much. I wonder if we're just overly sensitive to interruptions and manipulation.

saiya-jin 5y ago

I haven't used TV for any kind of broadcast, or literally anything that would in any way contain ads for past cca 15 years. TV I have has no wifi connection, never had one, never will have. I've become physically allergic to ads, anywhere. The way they are done reminds me of those drawings showing some nasty fugly stuff being squished into consumer's brain. This causes minor issues sometimes when we visit some friends and they have a TV blasting all the time, with their kids being fairly addicted to general media consumption. Anytime this happens and I see how they are glued to phones or consoles is a stark warning about choosing different path for my small kiddoz. Such a path you can lead them on by example. The amount of time we have thanx to this to spend on more important matters in life is non-trivial.

TheBozzCL 5y ago

Man, I try to explain the diseased nature of the modern advertising and people look at me like I'm crazy. But look at TV/radio broadcasts. Look at the streets you walk on. The websites you browse. It's literally everywhere, and its only purpose is to catch your eye to make you feel like you need to buy stuff. And they will stop at nothing to achieve that, including making you feel inadequate or abusing your weaknesses. And in the last 15 years, we've let these unscrupulous people gather all sorts of data on who we are and what we do, which they use to target us with the ads that manipulate us the best. That is what sounds crazy to me. Preaching to the choir, I know. It amazes me that most people don't seem to care all that much. I wonder if we're just overly sensitive to interruptions and manipulation.