Why are Americans so easy to manipulate?
Monte Davis
montedavis at verizon.net
Sat Oct 13 22:44:25 CDT 2012
The manufacture of consent: it's what we do.
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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Dave Monroe
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 9:53 PM
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Subject: Re: Why are Americans so easy to manipulate?
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> The corporatization of society requires a population that accepts
> control by authorities, and so when psychologists and psychiatrists
> began providing techniques that could control people, the
> corporatocracy embraced mental health professionals.
>
> [...]
>
> http://www.salon.com/2012/10/13/why_are_americans_so_easy_to_manipulat
> e/
This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed the perception of the human mind and its workings profoundly.
[...]
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-century-of-the-self/
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