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sapiens, that was the kind of thoughtful response I hope for when posting here. Thanks! It adds just the sort of critical-thinking dimension I would encourage we develop for the express purpose of staying as media-manipulation resistant as possible. I'm a bit more along the way than you in deciding that the billions of bucks spent on private corporate (and "secret" governmental) research into the fine points of how to influence and manipulate our consciousness and behavior have achieved stunning success. I see evidence of it all around me in the culture in general, in my friends, and in myself.

Yes, I admire the work of Daniel M. Wegner. I've quoted at length from his research in other venues where I publish. As to what it may have to do with public and private applications of the science of behavior modification, I'd say that if the conscious mind can be effectively demonstrated as bypassed in the processes of behavior, then a more powerful kind of control is achievable.

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