It’s interesting to watch you who are among corporate marketing’s more thoughtful practitioners (i.e., the ones who even bother to think about larger issues) contort yourselves to find comfort with your own terrible trade. You contend that, since advertising has always been unpopular, then popular revulsion against it is just a constant thing that need not trouble anybody. Besides, you say, the dislike for corporate brainwashing campaigns has never really led to action, so it must be mere trivia:

“Clearly there were people who could “see through” marketing in the late 19th century, and who could count an audience that would get the joke. Just as clearly, seeing through marketing didn’t quite add up to resisting marketing. Kinda like today.”

What you fail to mention is the complete and consistent lack of avenues for opposing the marketing juggernaut. The topic has always been forbidden in politics. What would happen if it became a topic of ongoing democratic debate? We may never know, because that prospect is ANATHEMA to the moneyed elite, who own the lion’s share of the corporate cash flows and buy and sell the figureheads in our two craven political parties.

Uh, are you talking to me? I’m not a practitioner of marketing. You might want to poke around this site a little more, maybe get some kind of sense of the overall themes, and the point of view, that tends to be expressed here. The Anti-Advertising Agency site reprinted this item in full — do you that’s run by professional marketers, too?

As for me saying that advertising “need not trouble anybody,” I said nothing of the kind. If you’d like to know what I was actually saying, just read the post!