I don't know about mind control, but it's certainly "practically applicable propaganda and confidence huckstering". And yes, by that alone, they are the enemy.
The stated purpose of advertising is to turn a no-sell into a sell. Good advertising does this more often than poor advertising. Perfect advertising would generate a sell any time someone interacted with it. If showing someone a set of sight, sounds and other sensations causes that individual to preform a specific set of actions, then that is mind control. Thus, perfect adverting is mind control. Since less than perfect advertising is not always successful then it is only attempted mind control.
I don't agree with this based on semantics. Mind Control isn't just about getting someone to preform a perfect task, but a loss of free will entirely. Mind Control means that they literally can't make a different choice, where as deception, coercion, subversion, persuasion, and trickery all simply manipulate people into making a different free choice. The choice is and always was there's to make, but they have been manipulated into making a free choice that benefits another. Mind Control doesn't allow for a choice at all.
Under your definition, fraud and coercion would also be mind control. If you put a gun to someone's head and tell them to give you their money, they will give you there money. That is the set of sights, sounds, and sensations that causes an individual to perform a specific set of actions. That is not, however, mind control because choice is still applicable. It is no longer a free choice under coercion. It is still a free choice under fraud. Neither are mind control because a choice is possible. In fact, mind control can go as far as still having a conscious victim be aware of the mind control and be unable to prevent it, showing that the ability to make any choice at all is the key part of the definition of mind control.
Advertising Is The Enemy
The whole industry is an enemy faction. Do not tolerate them.
Advertising is attempted mindcontrol. Occasionally it is successful. For that alone, they are the enemy.
I don't know about mind control, but it's certainly "practically applicable propaganda and confidence huckstering". And yes, by that alone, they are the enemy.
I think I can explain it more clearly.
The stated purpose of advertising is to turn a no-sell into a sell. Good advertising does this more often than poor advertising. Perfect advertising would generate a sell any time someone interacted with it. If showing someone a set of sight, sounds and other sensations causes that individual to preform a specific set of actions, then that is mind control. Thus, perfect adverting is mind control. Since less than perfect advertising is not always successful then it is only attempted mind control.
I don't agree with this based on semantics. Mind Control isn't just about getting someone to preform a perfect task, but a loss of free will entirely. Mind Control means that they literally can't make a different choice, where as deception, coercion, subversion, persuasion, and trickery all simply manipulate people into making a different free choice. The choice is and always was there's to make, but they have been manipulated into making a free choice that benefits another. Mind Control doesn't allow for a choice at all.
Under your definition, fraud and coercion would also be mind control. If you put a gun to someone's head and tell them to give you their money, they will give you there money. That is the set of sights, sounds, and sensations that causes an individual to perform a specific set of actions. That is not, however, mind control because choice is still applicable. It is no longer a free choice under coercion. It is still a free choice under fraud. Neither are mind control because a choice is possible. In fact, mind control can go as far as still having a conscious victim be aware of the mind control and be unable to prevent it, showing that the ability to make any choice at all is the key part of the definition of mind control.