Billboards are cathedrals, influencers are preachers, and your shopping cart is the offering plate. The religion of advertising doesn’t need faith, it needs your dopamine. And it always gets it.

Advertising isn’t selling products, it’s selling commandments. Thou shalt moisturize. Thou shalt upgrade. Thou shalt never feel enough. Salvation, apparently, is just one credit card swipe away.

 

Buy More, Feel Less: The Gospel According to Advertising by Nikhil Sharda

Billboards are cathedrals, influencers are preachers, and your shopping cart is the offering plate. The religion of advertising doesn’t need faith, it needs your dopamine. And it always gets it.

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