I disagree about the brainwashing part, and the capitalistic propaganda part.
Why?
I think that in a world with products, there will always be advertising for them
In a world with any service offered, be it a single craftsperson or a multinational company, there will be advertising.
I think the world disagrees with you, the Soviet Union had products but no advertising before ~1960s for example. That's simply not true.
Advertising as posters, movies, etc. made with the intent to convince people to buy products, don't necessarily have to exist along with the products. They only exist because the people who make products tend to also make advertising, because it increases their income. In a planned economy you could simply create the products without the advertising, or even in a capitalist one you could ban advertising.
Maybe in a capitalist economy with banned advertising there'd still be people who try to do it, but it'd be nothing like what it is today, but in any case that's not really what I'm arguing for, I'm arguing for a planned economy without advertising.
no he's $100% right u r brainwashed if u see an ad "buy JIGSAW deodorant today"
However I never said people were brainwashed as soon as they see an ad. I'm saying the advertising's way of communicating things are so biased and subjective they're basically propaganda and attempts to brainwash people. Watching the ads interrupting movies is like watching news from North Korea, only difference being they have different agendas. Please find other places to twist people's statements with your sarcasm.
Just to clarify, by advertising I meant the parasitic kind. Like interruptions on TV, the internet, people interrupting you on the street trying to sell you phone subscriptions, or when they throw them and other ads into your letter box. (Despite the fact that I have a sticker saying no to ads, ads getting thrown in actually
still make up the majority of my paper waste). The ads in the issue I linked to also falls into the parasitic category, because it uses society's resources, requires labor to make, but only serves to artificially inflate our consumption of products.
I'm not against shops having signs showing that you're entering a place where you can get vegetables or books, etc. And I also think people should be able to search for products in databases - but the key part is they're not confronted with it everywhere, but choose to search for it themselves, and the products should be described in a manner that's as objective as possible, without being tied to a goal of selling them.
