Honestly I disagree. Being “sold” an idea is just a metaphor we get from the same place as the “marketplace of ideas”, and it’s not accurate. There’s no transaction here, it’s a copy operation. You’re being offered an idea and you can adopt it or not. You don’t have to give anything up for it.
Personally I’m adopting this idea because it gave me a new feeling of how mentally peaceful a post capitalist world would be. You can already get a taste of the difference no advertising makes by going online with an adblocker. The last time youtube broke through my adblocker it was such an intrusive feeling and I put a lot of effort into making sure it wouldn’t happen again.
I was being a bit facetious, to be honest. But the author could have let the space be blanco and truly inobtrusive. In a sense buying a can of spray paint and illegally (I assume) defacing a surface is an investment in your message being read by multiple people.
I mean I agree with the general sentiment of it, but to follow your adblocker methaphor your ads would be replaced by the opinion of a random dude, which is obtrusive too, imho.
Honestly I disagree. Being “sold” an idea is just a metaphor we get from the same place as the “marketplace of ideas”, and it’s not accurate. There’s no transaction here, it’s a copy operation. You’re being offered an idea and you can adopt it or not. You don’t have to give anything up for it.
Personally I’m adopting this idea because it gave me a new feeling of how mentally peaceful a post capitalist world would be. You can already get a taste of the difference no advertising makes by going online with an adblocker. The last time youtube broke through my adblocker it was such an intrusive feeling and I put a lot of effort into making sure it wouldn’t happen again.
I was being a bit facetious, to be honest. But the author could have let the space be blanco and truly inobtrusive. In a sense buying a can of spray paint and illegally (I assume) defacing a surface is an investment in your message being read by multiple people.
I mean I agree with the general sentiment of it, but to follow your adblocker methaphor your ads would be replaced by the opinion of a random dude, which is obtrusive too, imho.