Reply #41: "I must have some super-duper immunity to advertising."

[depakid]

You may well- though on this issue, you also seem also to have an immunity to abstract thought and science.

Just because the psychology behind advertising and marketing doesn't "create demand" for you- doesn't mean that it's not effective on 10's of millions of people in the genral population.

Corporations like GM (or McDonalds or Coke/Pepsi) spend BIG money on high powered psychologists and others in their efforts to persuade folks to purchase items they have little use for or engage in unhealthy behaviors that they otherwise wouldn't. And they get a substantial return on that investment.