Rod,
How did they manipulate us? Are you sure we didn't manipulate them? What
evidence is there to support that this conspiracy exists (or existed) and
more importantly, that it was successful in influencing behavior (more than
it would have existed absent said manipulation)?
Other questions that pop to mind:
1) Are other nations that are similarly productive substantially more or less
consumer focused? Does that make them better or worse? Why?
2) Who is Bernays, and how was he able to implement his theories?
3) Why is this one aspect of Freud's mumbo-jumbo more successful than the
vast majority of his other ideas?
4) Why does a "stimulated non-rational inner self" make us "docile"?
5) Why does consumerism make us "relatively content"? If it makes us
content, why would we need to be manipulated to fall for it? Furthermore, if
it makes people content, are you sure you are against it?
6) Finally, are you sure that it is wise dismissing people's abilities to
choose freely? Once you go there, you tend to get trapped in a loop where
they need to be treated like sheep and you become the shepherd. Certainly
not a promising solution to the problem of manipulation, is it?
7) Wouldn't it actually be easier to manipulate a few people watching a show
on TV into believing they were manipulated when they weren't than it would
be to actually manipulate hundreds of millions of people?
Just asking.
Risky
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