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True. And I don't think trying to control unwanted advertising intrusions is the way to go. It all seems to go back to upbringing and education. Are we teaching our kids how to manage themselves in this new global world? It's very hard to resist, and teach our children to resist, the results of "trickle-down" greed, selfishness, and just plain meanness. Sometimes it feels like being sucked into a vortex where there is no choice, just automatic compliance with buying whatever update or new version of the things we already have.
This is an example of how our environments affect us. We're programmed to constantly seek fulfillment of all our desires. Those in the advertising sector are the great manipulators of our time. Every add promises wealth, beauty, sex, perfect relationships and on and on. And we're unable to escape being marketed to. It's a bit scary to realize how much we are managed by a consumer society. The question becomes, how do we mitigate this, individually and as a society?