I have often wondered: could it be that there was a time when advertising shifted from being benign to becoming parasitic on society; and that corporate social media is an enhancement of that same mechanism first harnessed by newspapers, then radio, then television; where media outlets draw so much of peopleβs attention away from their own lives and into unproductive, passive, low-grade entertainment that overall societal productivity declines so dramatically that the very customers who would consume the products and services being peddled are no longer able to afford them; thereby leaving medicine as the primary and terminal product, because it is not paid for by the consumer themselves but directly through money printing via subsidized and socialized medical care?
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