Quite. It's only a cultural production. We certainly can make it go away. It's an critical part of an ecocidal system of production that is incompatible with a living planet. It's also incompatible with healthy, clear-seeing minds. Was it Adbusters who referred to marketing as 'mental pollution'? That almost seems too narrow - I think of it as a cognitive & cultural pollution: the manufacture of desire, for the purpose of cancerous & unsustainable fake economic 'growth'. It will have to go.

"The natural state of the universe is no advertising"

Tell that to a peacock.

I'd disagree. Advertising exists in very subtle forms such as mere persuasion and even more subtly, plain information. The background radiation present in the cosmos advertises the big bang's existence.

I’m still waiting for the 2-for-the-price-of-1 sale on Big Bangs before I buy.

whoosh My point was that advertising doesn’t need to exist in its current state. It’s not some immutable facet of the universe that Google tracks us everywhere and then directs targeted crap at us.

Are you being obtuse on purpose?