Advertising is what makes us pay 800 dollars for a consumer commodity product like a cell phone or a pair of running shoes which cost 5 dollars to manufacture with slave labor in China.
As has been endlessly said, we are not buying the product, "we are buying the dream" the affinity with celebrity, sex, power and prestige.
The dream was created by wide awake and sophisticated entities to exploit the most powerful of mankind's innate drives.
The "dream" is the pseudo reality created by advertising supported media; a hyper sexualized consumer cargo cult in which millions are imprisoned, perhaps beyond hope of rescue.
In the Amazon, the people say explicitly that the material realm, the daily reality, is the insubstantial dream, and in the dreams, the real world is found.
The world of dreams is the imagination, what the Persians called the Mundus Imaginalis, and it shares many of the properties of virtual space.
It's well understood by most internet users that there are monsters in virtual space. There are fake websites and millions of fake identities simulating real people and deployed by different entities seeking to shape popular opinion.
If you're Facebook, or the Chinese Ministry of Information, NSA or (+ many others) you can track waves of emotion associated with Information Operations, animate a graph and watch this in "real time".
These images and sounds comprising the 'news' stories may be real, partially real, or entirely imagined. However composed, the stories are engineered to produce an a predictable emotional response and voluntarily choose to act against our interests.–
It's a grand scale deception, our world, and for that reason the cult calls it "the beautiful lie"
We have been warned repeatedly about the seductive dangers of advertising supported media; by writers like Karl Kraus, Marshall McLuhan, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and CS Lewis, as well as scientists like Wilson Bryan Keys and Leonard Mlodinow.
NSA and US military intelligence use the "Snow White" analogy, where America is the princess who ate the poisoned apple and fell into a deep materialist consumer trance. The same mechanism, media content, by which this psycho spiritual stupefaction was induced, is offering targeted influence operations and psycho sexual subversion, much of it targeting children.
DIG MEME PRAY