In a world without advertising...

A cute little project from Mindrally, the site withoutadvertising.com allows users to fill in the blank. Literally, and that's all there is to it.

It's just a little bit of Web 2.1 fun, there's no moderation, so as soon as you post something, it appears on the site until bumped by new entries.

Unfortunately, the site just further renews my lack of faith in the human race. Some stellar responses (those that I assume are serious) include:

Without advertising,

"...everything will be the same"
"...everything would be awesome"
"...tv watching would be simpler"
"...all we'd have is the internet"

and of course...

"...i would be in cuba"

uhhhh...

You can see my entry in the screenshot (the one in yellow). I'm sure magazines as we know them actually wouldn't exist at all. Same with newspapers, TV, etc. I really can't imagine a feasible world without advertising. People say it brings up the prices of a lot of commodities, but it also brings down prices of media and other things, and creates competition that is vital to the survival of the economy.

"TV watching" would not be simpler...you'd have 3 channels to pick from and you'd have to pay a few hundred dollars a month to see them. But, heaven forbid Joey Baggadonuts opens up his limited worldview to see that commercials are more than annoying breaks in Family Guy and The Real World.

I'm considering adding to the list:

"...people would have one less thing to not understand."
and
"...I'd have a boring major."