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Are you sure?
Or is it more about dispelling it?
Even just the preceding omitted portion of the line that you replied to on the same line as (~ lol. oh boy), showed:
This is vastly distinct from how when I was "Just Doing My Job"[TM], and the intent would be to have you completely oblivious to ploys afoot, and to have you believe without question, just presume as normal, all the associations we'd be implanting without your awareness, to shift your perceptions, your preferences, your prejudices, and of course, ultimately, your purchases.
It's the difference between Penn&Teller showing you not only there is a trick, but how it's being done to you [or at least, so goes the pedagogical aspiration], and a conman not even pretending to be a magician, just tricking you out of your wealth, and having you be so tricked, you're even thankful for it. A really effective conman, an advertiser, who was really "good" at their job, may even manage to have you attack anyone who tries to get you out of the con, because they got you so identified with it, any critique, any questioning, gets seen as an existential threat.
The ignorance that dies, is not you.
^Is a great line to help remember, and to return to curiosity any time slipping to a place where different perspectives seem threatening and in need of being attacked again.
It's an ongoing "eternal vigilance" kind of thing, here in a sea of misinformation, where everybody's a shill.
So, yeah. I'm ex-advertiser, in so far as I've utterly relinquished any aspect of a career in it, since that first (and last) TV advert, that while I was making, I watched a Bill Hicks VHS over and over (the one with that "anybody here work in advertising or marketing" bit I linked above), wearing it out to snow, getting maybe a dozen doses a day of that bit. But not at all deluded to think that's it. It's a constant presence... that miasma that we're all swimming in, that normalises the hard sell, the con, the grift, ... the convincing. Now, I mmmmmuch much much more prefer the idea we all get epistemologically astute, wise to the con. It's easier to con, than to de-con. But ever worth striving for a world where people are honest, can spot tricks and psychological maladies, and can even then offer remedies... and then we can expedite mending this world, far easier, without the total abandon to corruption as is and have been for too long.
nah i'm sure.
That's an awful lot of explanation to answer
"You’re not as ex as you think you are. post is still dripping with it"