“… even if you assume your (patently ridiculous) assertion that advertising somehow takes over people’s brains and forces them to buy things they don’t want or need….”

Yes, that would be ridiculous. If that were my assertion. But that is not my assertion.

“… how does your position not apply even worse to government?”

To be fair to you, you are right, I don’t think my position does not apply to government.

While I am clearly not a supporter of Libertarianism, nor in general libertarians, neither am I a supporter of the familiar machinations, deceits, and generally mendacious process of government.

Unfortunately, I am niether so learned, nor so wise, nor politically creative enough to posit something better. I can only speak to what I perceive as wrong-headed political ideas.

That being said, I do (naivley no doubt) believe that the democratic process, if it were carried out with a reasonable level of honesty and legitimate representation would be a far better process than what I perceive to be the political process of what I’ve read about Libertarianism.

No idea. No problem for me: I don’t have a Facebook account. If there’s no way to close your account, you can always just stop logging in. What does this have to do with the topic?

Well, the government draws the line where monopolization starts doing more harm than good.

Google the works of Dominick Armentano :)

Without it, there’s no reason why a mini-monopoly can’t grow into a huge monopoly,

Monopoly, in the sense you mean, is caused by government. Without it, it couldn’t exist.

just as a local warlord in an anarchy can grow his tribe until he becomes a dictator.

Umm…”anarchy” means there are “no rulers” — if there’s a “warlord”, it’s not anarchy, by definition! In this non-anarchy with the warlord, why do his tribe follow him?

But you get to vote for or against corporations on a daily basis through your decisions about what to buy or not buy, and you have complete choice among the available options.

Sounds good in theory, but how easy is it to do something as simple as closing your Facebook account after you’ve accumulated a large network of friends?

and if you draw the lines in the right places, there’s no such thing as not-monopoly anyway

Well, the government draws the line where monopolization starts doing more harm than good. Without it, there’s no reason why a mini-monopoly can’t grow into a huge monopoly, just as a local warlord in an anarchy can grow his tribe until he becomes a dictator.

Most other people do. It’s the Biblical God.

However, we haven’t seen any good evidence of such an advanced alien intelligence.

And if atheists will accept the existence of intelligent extra-terrestrials, then where does one draw the line between them and a “god”?