It’s been a long time since counterculture stand-up legend Bill Hicks sermonized on the soul-sucking evils of corporate America, naming advertising executives as the gravest offenders. Marketing no longer has the stink of deception and greed once attached to it, with the mainstream having accepted ads as a necessary part of a free economy and some even vaunting them as a lower form of art. ..read the full article here at Vanity Fair.