There are plenty of scams people buy into daily…using Google, Apple or Android phones, capitalism…
Advertising is not a technology and there is no evidence that advertising occured 30,000 years ago. That time period predates capitalism, products and competition among manufacturers, and written language.
Advertising is a method of persuasion.
It’s as old as civilization.
We advertise for various reasons, selling products is just one of them.
And yes, over time, we have developed new advertising techniques.
A body of techniques is what’s referred to as a “technology”.
Advertising is a communication technique to bring attention to something.
You are mostly talking about commercial advertising, which is still not technology.
Where did you find that definition of technology?
I don’t understand what you’re asking.
Given this technology of persuasion (advertising). A technology that is insanely powerful (so powerful that convincing literally everybody of literally anything is a power that is comfortably within our grasp). What would it look like if everybody was persuaded to believe some total bullshit?
I mean what would it look like, to us, if we found ourselves in the midst of such a predicament?
We’re living in an age of demagoguery, I don’t know why you wouldn’t use that metaphor instead of the relatively harmless advertising, it’s much more important and you can look around and see what it’s like.
Exactly what mainstream human life is now.
That would imply that I am wrong about something and so are all my friends.
My cherished belief, in which I am heavily invested, upon which all of my important ideas are based, is actually total bullshit.
Given the choice between that hard truth and a tasty lie, I might choose the lie.
