The idea feels like sci-fi because you’re so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.
The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn’t been valid for decades.
“Advertising is violence???”
Anyone who says these kind of statements should be forced to watch an hour of gore.
Nobody who isn’t knee deep in circle jerking leftist communities thinks you’re clever. You can argue against advertising without trivializing worse things.