plus i m not sure if you re aware how extreme your position is

Most of our beautiful classical art was advertisements for the Church

most graffiti is uglier than ads

I guess that's why I hate so much of it.

Also the bloody hymns that are popular this season. Especially the castrati voices.

My taste runs toward punk, black metal, acid house, and trance.

Wait, aren't you the person who just wrote "think different"? I'm confused.

> Most of our beautiful classical art was advertisements for the Church

Sure, and Jesus was a Marxist, or something... If you try to force XXI century concepts into XIV century realities you can arrive at silly over-simplified conclusions such as the one above.

> most graffiti is uglier than ads

This is your opinion. Graffitis are not trying to manipulate me.

That being said I don’t disagree with the rest of your post.

Good one.

So maybe a couple years ago, being a klutz, I brushed a finger against a red-hot stovetop grill. There was a hiss, with ~no pain at first. And creepily, a delicious smell.

Took months to heal. And hurt like fuck.

But that smell. Damn.

The point is that the delicious food smell from burning myself severely was unexpected, distracting ... and worse, rather invasive, and hard to put out of mind.

So that's like being confronted by advertising that triggers some unconscious drive. It puts some new thought in your head, which leads you to do something that you otherwise wouldn't. So that'a invasive just like the smell of ones braising flesh, which bringsd up thoughts of eating.

That is, the riff that art to advertising is like gastronomy to cannibalism. Or at least, autocannibalism.

There's also similarity between advertising and sexual assault. The possibility that a victim -- like a victim of advertising -- will come to enjoy the experience. And end up being betrayed by their body. Which arguably is one of thge worst parts of the experience. Seeing ads is rather like brain rape.