I thought I'd repeat my position on the basic questions above.
Because the collective power over decades of scientifically sophisticated research and billions of dollars of privately-funded consumer-behavior-motivation studies are overwhelmingly more powerful than any single human individual's ability to defend him/herself against the onslaught, we are in no way able to make decisions for ourselves in any sensible way. This is because our self images, behaviors, and relationships are wholly molded by these gargantuan powers of manipulation.
To disagree and claim some ability to resist or detach oneself from the influence of external decisionmaking is to appear simply naive and dangerously uninformed.
As for free-will - it is something with which we flatter ourselves and wish very dearly that it might exist.
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