I thought it too relevant not to refer to the discussion that's proceeding in the following thread:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...threadid=62987
The discussion concerns perhaps the most obvious material example of what havoc the power of advertising can wreak upon a citizenry. I see whole shelves of junk food crammed inside the skins of too many people every day not to make the most obvious and clear connection to the relative helplessness of the individual against the collected might of billions of dollars of corporate research into the most sophisticated and advanced manipulation apparatus ever imagined by mankind.