Any time one repeats lies that much, one should expect negative effects.
I believe society is having a positive effect on advertising, and that this is a good thing. To the extent that ads are bad, it is because society is weak. As people become smarter and more sophisticated, advertising will adjust to meet our expectations, or it will become irrelevant.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.