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You can get 'spirit' through art in the form of books, pictures and music. It's a lot more potent and designed for the purpose rather than just having that purpose tacked on to sell a product.

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That’s not really the same thing. The US military doesn’t read books at people about how their plane should look fearsome when they are flying a hunk of junk. You have to occupy it to some degree, though I will give you playing the radio in the car can create an enjoyable synthesis of mediums.

And how do you find these books, pictures, and music? Someone has to deliver book X in front of your eyes and song Y close to your ears so you select these instead of millions of other books, pictures, and music.

Since we don't want the advertising industry to just evaporate over-night when we regulate it out of existence we can fund it collectively to solve this problem.

Wall to wall advertising to help everyone live a better life as cheaply & with as little environmental damage as possible.

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