Turning off the Tube

It is a toss up the worst ad on television.  Is it Mark Wahlburg lying to make a buck, or is it a major car company quizzing millennials into believing their car is better?  My most revolting response comes from seeing a car company use a tactic once utilized by SouthWest.  You are a freshman in college, and you get a call in the dorm instructing you to a meeting in the student union.  You don't know what it is, and you are a bit flattered that they have called you.  You feel honored that your academic credentials may have given you entree to a coveted society.  It turns out to be SouthWest. They want you to sell magazine subscription or books door to door.  The seminar is bathed in academia.  You think you may be in a legitimate collegiate seminar, until fifteen minutes in it begins to dawn on you.  I got up and left with some obstruction from one of their cronies.  Not long after others began to leave the coercive meeting.  Cult.  Brainwashing.  Pandering.  Next television advertisement that elicits violence from me.  Kids standing around being quizzed in a leisurely way about which car has received the most awards.  Awards from whom?  Academia.  The Academy.  Washington?  Awards in America are contrived and given by corporate America.  Any guise to coerce you to believe anything else is fraud.  Advertising which, like many things in America has sidestepped check and balances by any ethics probe, contends to be enlightened for the sake of selling your product is a fake.  Not fake news.  Fake Advertising.  Fake Advertising should become more alarming, since its intent is to influence you into spending your money.  Fake news, and there is a lot of it, you can turn off.  You can choose not to read.  You can choose not to watch.  Now television, which has become fife with Fake Advertising, you also can turn off.  You can choose not to watch, until once again if ever it becomes honest.