I'm saying I don't think advertisers are knowingly bending the knee, I think they're chasing money in many cases, I think Soros, Black Rock, Klaus, and many others who do control them believe in what they push even if it's retarded. Know the enemy in order to fight it.
I think they are knowingly bending the knee, but not for money in itself, but the power to keep getting money. They don't control any power, really, as you've pointed out, they're just dogs being led by those with actual power.
In a White country, implicitly, seeing a neighbor on the screen shilling something makes the subconscious part of the brain recoil. That isn't good for advertising, but they do it. That contradiction can't be ignored, it isn't an accident, there is a reason, and it ain't for money. If the dogs stray from this path, they lose all ability to maintain their business. Klaus and co will make sure of that. Instead of fighting against the creatures pushing horrible shit, they're content in helping shape the world for the worse for scraps of money
and power. I know the enemy. I just think the motivation of the cog in the machine is almost always political (maintenance of power) rather than accidentally political. Or in Pippa's original assertion to the motivation of advertisers (as part of being a cog in the machine), hardly ever political.
The actual individual actors within the cog, was what I was saying isn't super relevant as the purpose of the system is what it does. In this case it's to get power (and the ability to continue making money). When I was misunderstanding what you were getting at.