i was at my parents' to grab free food they were offering me today and my dad had like streaming cable tv on his tablet in the kitchen and just like
it was five minutes of ads followed by five minutes of propaganda followed by five minutes of ads that are maybe well intentioned but weirdly jingoistic appeals to patriotism and so on and so on
and like the shitty quality of tv news aside, i curate personal spaces that are almost as ad free as possible and it just feels so intrusive to be around them, like, they're so overtly manipulative, it can't be healthy that we've decided to base an entire economy on them, that they should appear in every media object and every physical space we occupy
