Yes, thats the point of the movie - human beings' most banal desires can be and are weaponized against them.
replyThat you reject the entire premise of the movie because you can't "get over" this particular aspect, just means you've got your own loaded revolver in your pocket.
If it was a basic biological function then the marketing department wouldn’t exist.
replyConsumption and love/sex are things we tend to do naturally, but marketing just ramps it up to a level we probably wouldn't reach if we weren't forced or manipulated into it. Just about anybody can fall in love, but marketing can pressure you into thinking that not falling in love and being with someone means you've failed at life and marketing can fill with you anxiety if you aren't in love, or haven't had sex, or you've had sex too early, or not early enough, or not often enough, etc. Naturally they've got all kinds of things to sell you to help.
replyOf all the phenomena in modern life a person might have anxiety about, the kinds of sex they are having (or not having) seem like the thing most relatable to their hunter-gatherer ancestors tens of thousands of years ago, long before the invention of marketing.
reply> marry and reproduce
replyI left that out deliberately, as I think they are a good thing
Yes, I am aware of the irony of trying to manipulate people via messages