BBDO's dream
Probably been said before, but this popped into what's left of my "mind", so might as well pop it out....

Our modern age is basically Don Draper's dream.

Those ad agencies of the '50s were parodied from a moral viewpoint by Stan Freberg** and Vance Packard. (ie the agencies were evil because they operated on pure greed.)

In modern times the show Mad Men parodied the agencies from a satanic viewpoint. (ie their greed was just fine, but they didn't conform to genocidal Die-Versity which hadn't been invented yet, so they were evil.)

What would the fictional Draper, or the real Batton, Barton, Durstein and Osborne, think of an economy that consists of NOTHING BUT AD AGENCIES?

Google is an ad agency running a corrupt library and the secret police. Amazon is an ad agency running a giant mail-order store and the secret police. Facebook is an ad agency running a satanic church and the secret police.

I suspect Draper would be surprised that the anti-trust laws had disappeared, but happy that the repeal gave total control of the government and culture to ad agencies. He would be even happier to find that these monster agencies paid NO TAXES to governments, presumably because they are doing the work that tyrannies formerly performed in-house through non-advertising agencies like NSA, GCHQ, KGB, or Sturmabteilung.

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**When I played this Freberg clip I realized two things. (1) I haven't heard it since 1959. (2) I can sing and talk along with it verbatim, note for note, word for word, intonation for intonation. Scary to think that this entire performance has been rattling around in my brain for 57 years with no external refresh, and remained perfectly preserved. Basically proves the value of advertising, despite Freberg's intentions!
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