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A comment on The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (2018) [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (2... by intotheabyss on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:23PM (#24485610)
Ads have been around as long as human societies have been around. Just look at the murals of Pompeii for example, or the rock walls in modern day Syria with commercial advertisements. As long as humans have something that others want, there will be advertising.. unfortunately.
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Re:The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (2... by nescioquid on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @12:10AM (#24489453)
I think it anachronistic to construe signs and graffito from the ancient world to be equivalent to modern advertisement, marketing, or public relations, which belong to the world Edward Bernays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays) helped invent. It really is different in kind from the menu with prices someone painted on a wall around 79 CE.
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