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Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
Yes, ma'am, I am fooling myself. Thankyou for clarifying that.
I only wish I'd get manipulated more often and more effectively.
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I don't think that it is possible for the average person to be manipulated more effectively. Our entire society screams the Battle-Cry, "We are unique, We are special!" Then after asserting our uniqueness, statistics show that we go and buy all of the things that we are told we HAVE to have in order to be unique, beautiful or special. Some are more resistant to this manipulation than others, but no one is completely impervious to it.
I see it kind of like the old church adage about Satan. "The greatest trick Satan ever pulled was convincing the world that he wasn't real." Well, the greatest trick that media has ever pulled is convincing us that we are free-thinking and unique. You know, snowflakes and all of that...