> How do you partake in the real world without it warping your personality? You can't, but what you can do is try to understand where your cognitive biases are

> How do you partake in the real world without it warping your personality? You can't, but what you can do is try to understand where your cognitive biases are, learn the ways advertisers manipulate you and accept that knowing about those techniques do not make them ineffective, actively search for ways you've already been manipulated by advertising, work to develop your critical thinking skills, and above all understand that your children have zero defenses against advertising and that they are specifically and aggressively targeted by advertisers for that reason. Children should be protected from as much advertising as humanly possible for as long as humanly possible and you should start teaching them about the fact that they are being lied to and manipulated by advertising as soon as possible and help them to develop some of the skills that might help them, however much of that will be literally impossible for them until their minds are more developed. You child can recognize and form preferences for brands long before they learn to identify ads when they see them. Even teenagers are terrible at it. https://www.marketingdive.com/news/study-82-of-middle-school-kids-cant-distinguish-ads-from-actual-news/430934/ https://www.marketingdive.com/news/study-82-of-middle-school...