@phiofx @gerrymcgovern @jackofalltrades @jill_the_pill @FantasticalEconomics marketing and propaganda are twins. The vast majority of mass media advertising is manipulative enough to be considered coercive abuse.
It's also almost impossible to escape.
The most evil thing about it is that we're know on a third (or fourth?) generation of society where everyone thinks it's normal and good to soak in an environment where every second has at least one ad in your attention.