Go ahead. Blame advertising. You know you want to.

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I don't blame advertising for consumerism. I blame it for effectively reducing people's lifetime. Every moment some M'fR injects his/her unwanted "message" into the victim's brain, it replaces the thoughts she/he would have ordinary put in that time frame. These moments are either lost to that person or postponed to a later time. Given that Mr. Normal ends up being subjected to dozens of commercials means that years have been effectively taken off his life. The scam is here most people like to think they're functionally immortal and don't mind a perhaps a half hour a day of commercial messages. They need to think again.

Various environmental/progressive groups measure things like cancer due to radiation or particulates as actual "deaths". Generally this type of thing simply cuts off a number of years off the back end of people's lives, but are related as e.g. "40,000" deaths/yr due to particulates in the atmosphere. If you accept this, then unwanted advertising kills millions of people a year as it effectively terminates their throught processes years earlier than if they had never heard an advertisment. At best, being subject to a commercial is like being possessed by someone else. And that's something utterly immoral.

Advertising good for you? Just another BS commercial message.