Advertising sells illuminated absence, incentivising us to pursue idealised selves that remain permanently, profitably out of reach.
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Advertising sells illuminated absence, incentivising us to pursue idealised selves that remain permanently, profitably out of reach.
Facts may not be sacred in practice, but the alternative is shameless informational feudalism: a world in which power determines visibility, visibility determines belief, and belief dissociatively drifts away from the world it claims to describe.