The slug line under the header of the full-page ad read, “See it. Love it. Buy it.” I flipped through the pages of $800 heels and $250 bangles in my sister’s most recent edition of InStyle. True, I loved what I saw, but I certainly wasn’t going to spend a month’s salary on a pair of snakeskin shoes. I set the magazine down, but couldn’t help thinking that the advertisement’s call to action was persuasive. Anyone with the money and frivolity available to them could be unconsciously convinced. Our culture advertises to us 24/7. Television and radio commercials, billboards, cereal boxes, newspapers, magazines, fliers, and websites form a constant barrage of material promises. Our money is desired, our attention sought after, and our time…