Even in the early 20th century, though, critics saw Tiger Lily and her fellow "Picaninnies" as caricatures

Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion...

What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life whIIen a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.