“Clearly there were people who could “see through” marketing in the late 19th century, and who could count an audience that would get the joke. Just as clearly, seeing through marketing didn’t quite add up to resisting marketing. Kinda like today.”

What murketing fails to mention is the complete and consistent lack of avenues for opposing the marketing juggernaut. The topic has always been forbidden in politics. What would happen if it became a topic of ongoing democratic debate? We may never know, because that prospect is ANATHEMA to the moneyed elite, who own the lion’s share of the corporate cash flows and buy and sell the figureheads in our two craven political parties.

Okay, so it’s the 3rd-rate corporations. Especially the ones who cynically prey upon the current vogue for faux-libertarian privacy rights. What a shower of bastards.