"Outlawing advertising is the best thing we can do for our world now," says philosopher

ChattyG (after Bruegel the Elder)

Advertising is "the machinery of mass delusion," says writer Kōdō Simone. He calls for abolishing all advertising — not regulating it, but making it completely illegal.

Banning advertising would eliminate the financial incentives behind addictive digital content and reality-distorting algorithms. He claims an advertising …