We need to reduce advertising, until it ends. We desperately want to share information based on people needing to learn it, not based on it producing money. Profit can outcompete good reasons, because money is the primary mode of survival in our culture. This makes a trend where information flow reliably moves away from what is important. In the 1800s people had salons to discuss political topics productively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(gathering)#Conversation,_content_and_th... Nowadays we have talk shows where everybody yells and laughs, and nothing new is exchanged between the sides, for decades and decades.