The Product is the Only Salesman.

What if we woke up tomorrow morning and all advertising was banned?  All of it.  The billboards, radio, television, the back of napkins, sides of buses, everything.  The only thing left to sell the product is the product itself.  Would we be better off?

If we all lost our jobs tomorrow, the good and the bad alike, all gone.  No more shitty car dealership spots or questionable political attack ads, but also no more Apple, or Nike, or the like.

Of course, we're too deep in it now to ever go back, but if we could, would we want to?  Would you want to?

photo from Thomas Hawk.