Have you noticed that advertising and marketing have taken
over the world? Billboards, signboards, posters, popup ads, commercials, bus
ads, cars and more carry their messages. Marketers wrap them in shiny paper,
make them entertainment (notice how many commercials have dance numbers
lately?), pepper them with celebrities. Athletes and sports teams become
walking marketers. Consumers pay extra to wear the status logos of big brands.
We can now be marketed to at the gas pump with gasTV.
We didn’t ask for all this. It’s ugly and it’s pervasive.
Imagine a world where all this noise and visual pollution is gone and we can
think about beauty again.
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