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/^t/However, the remaining 99% of advertisements are an insult to aesthetic values and common sense. And even this would be less dangerous, if were not even more harmful on other levels. Hardly anybody can deny the fact that adverts constitute an insidious form of brainwashing. It operates on various levels thought the result is basically one: creation of demands for things we do not really need, and, as a consequence, the creation of consumer, throwaway society. Let's face it: how many times have we bought something we did not really need, but went on buying it only because "it could have been useful?" The answer to this question is, I guess, many.