I want to get as far away from the ad economy and ad culture as possible. Since there’s a 0% chance the morons supporting it will ever learn from their mistakes, I’m starting to realize the only option going forward is to create new places where we aren’t stuck with the “tunnel vision of the stupids.”
It doesn’t have to be large, start small and work our way out. It also doesn’t have to be expensive. It shouldn’t be too difficult to enforce a ban on physical advertisements within the borders, but digital advertising is a whole 'nother ballgame.
Even for a small town, would it be possible to sue companies for running ads in it? Similar to how the same company will show different content on their web services depending on where the user connects from to adhere to local laws. It would be fine if they just blocked connections from where advertising is illegal, but it’s not okay for them to show ads to our residents.
Any insight into this besides useful idiots saying advertising is good or necessary would be greatly appreciated!
You don’t want to ban advertising, you want people to have an interest in only making their services known honestly and with the intention of letting people know “this exists” instead of with the intention of getting people to buy something. Because it’s actually good to let people know where they can get services or goods and what kinds of services and goods are available. And the only way to truly get to this point is by abolishing capitalism. As long as capitalism exists, there will always be incentive for people to make advertising more than just letting people know. As long as capitalism exists, you can do stuff like “going after false advertising more rigorously”, “banning certain types of ads” or “restricting how many ads are allowed and where they are allowed”. But that only limits the harm advertising can do, it can never stop it completely.
I’m not even entirely sure it’s a capitalism problem. Making a solution for a given problem known does require hawking it in some form, even if that’s a character standing on a soapbox at a street corner.
Even without capital, there are motivations for someone to push their own solution over someone else’s, even if that’s just “my solution is better”.
They for sure had advertisements in the soviet union. Sure much of it was more like propaganda, but they did also advertise goods and such.