An Advertisement (n.) passed twice a day for months, unread, can surface in a dream as an order for a Polish liqueur whose name the dreamer swears he never heard.
An Advertisement (n.) can be a net: advertise a house without naming its defects and some unwary person runs into it.
An Advertisement (n.) is the way of attracting people in large ratio.
The Advertisement (n.) is the pushing of the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion; which is quite akin to brainwashing.
Advertising (n.) has discoved a universal third person in America, the man we all want to be. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer.
Advertising (n.) plays on the drum major instinct: to be a man of distinction you must drink this whiskey; to make your neighbors envious, drive this car.
Advertising (n.) becomes art for art's sake: advertising for advertising's sake, the pure display of social power.
Advertising (n.) once helped buyers find their way through the market; now that the free market is ending, it is where those in control dig in, shackling consumers to the big combines.
Advice (n.) is often sought merely as a guise for seeking corroboration.
Advice (n.) seems to belong to everyone else about what one should do and not do, while only oneself does not know, so that we are all like statues with the wrong heads on them, except the dear neighbour, who is of course the exception.
Advice (n.) is useless to the ignorant, whose ignorance clouds it, and superfluous to the wise, who already know what to do.
Advice (n.) given at the boiling point of emotion is smelling-salts for an epileptic: it revives but does not cure.
Affective communication (n.) rewards not the better argument but the most exciting information — which is why fake news beats fact.