Ads just work, no matter what you think
Headline should reflect the original article (&quot;Ads just work&quot;).<p>Some thoughts...<p>Humans, in general, seek to improve their environment. One might paint their home, put out plant pots, tidy up, whatever else. In private spaces this all works out.<p>Advertising goes against all of that. It effectively states &#x27;I can put this ugly thing here, and it&#x27;ll increase my local happiness (because I don&#x27;t have to see it), so screw the global happiness&#x27;.<p>I stated a similar form of this argument in another thread. There&#x27;s a huge banner ad (larger than a person) close to my home, on a bus stop. The last I saw it was some sort of advert for supplements of dubious medical value.<p>My nice walk to the post office or whatever gets interrupted by this nonsense every time I go outside, big colourful unnatural full-face things reminding me that people are being duped into buying crap they don&#x27;t need by other people that don&#x27;t care about them.<p>I think, and hope, that one day we&#x27;ll realise that many forms of advertising are effectively mental abuse.