If advertising only sought to bring consumer's attention to the existence of a product, this self-serving drivel might be acceptable. But advertising has moved well beyond such simplicities, has passed the mere stroking of individual vanities into constructing entirely false emotional and cultural ideologies of who people are and what a product says about somebody who owns such a thing and their role within society.

The pernicious advertising of food that creates helath problems, but is immensely profitable, the relentless pushing of cheap and nasty alcohols (I could go on at length how eurofizz lager was sold to the British public during the 70s and 80s), not to create choice  but, like some form of advertising NewSpeak, to actually restrict the ability of the consumer to choose anything else.

And they know this. The article points to the EU commissioners justification of their use of cars as natural and reasonable to underline that this is exactly what has already happened.

A ban of the ads and a tax on the use of the things.

keep to the Fen Causeway