I'm reminded a bit of Geoffrey Miller's "Spent", which (like you) I didn't care for. Miller is a counter-example to your generalization about people not portraying advertising as glorious, but his claims for its importance seemed to rest more on his rhetorical impressiveness than actual evidence.
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I'm reminded a bit of Geoffrey Miller's "Spent", which (like you) I didn't care for. Miller is a counter-example to your generalization about people not portraying advertising as glorious, but his claims for its importance seemed to rest more on his rhetorical impressiveness than actual evidence.