It is bad enough that companies control the resources people need, and that they force us to look at their idiotic advertising in order to keep their 'brand image' in our minds, but these days they go further than that. As the reality of their business practices and their mass-produced products come under ever greater public scrutiny, companies feel they have to put out more sophisticated and insidious propaganda. They hope to justify their existence, to counter criticism, to ingratiate...