Quotes About Manipulation

la historia la escriben los vencedores y los vencedores, con el tiempo, adquieren el poder de obligarnos a creer lo que escribieron, de hacernos olvidar lo que no se escribió y de inducirnos a tener miedo de lo que jamás ocurrió.

he had focused so long on the precision of the word, the utterance that was most unfettered by artful manipulation, that the thing had become mere style.

It was so easy. A slight curl of his right pointer finger and a man's life was gone forever.

You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.

You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)

THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn't very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an antiaging moisturizer? You make someone worry about aging. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws.

Personal emotions should be carefully monitored. Emotional ties are to be exploited but never felt.

Let's be honest. There's not really any safe place to meet an aspiring head of a top-secret organization, trained in every manner of mind control and manipulation and bent on word domination by any means necessary.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

We manufactured fake dissent, to prevent real dissent.

The party worked the cattle in their pen into such a dither that now they won't rest until they get the giant wall that real-life, as-seen-on-TV billionaire Donald Trump promises will save them from all those measles-infected rapists pouring over the border. Not

it's so pathetically easy to set big groups of voters off angrily chasing their own tails in response to media-manufactured nonsense

Bill Clinton's political formula for seizing the presidency was simple. He made money tight in the ghettos and let it flow free on Wall Street. He showered the projects with cops and bean counters and pulled the cops off the beat in the financial services sector. And in one place he created vast new mountain ranges of paperwork, while in another, paperwork simply vanished.

So long as the public is busy hating each other and not aiming its ire at the more complex financial and political processes going on off-camera, there's very little danger of anything like a popular uprising.

Does anyone seriously believe that powerful people would allow truly dangerous ideas to be broadcast on TV? The news today is a reality show where you're part of the cast: America vs. America, on every channel.

By February 2016, when Trump was already steaming toward the nomination, I began to realize the extent to which he'd conned all of us. He first used the media's financial desperation to secure free coverage, but when the attention became not just negative but condemnatory, he used that, too. He

He was a walking cut corner, a thumb on the scale of American history. The

News companies don't just want you feeling ashamed of not knowing the news. That's desperate marketing, ring-around-the-collar tactics. They want you so emotionally invested that your psyche falls apart if the wrong story appears on screen. We want you awake at night, teeth chattering, panicking about things over which you have no control.

Listening in anger to your favorite political program, you will act like a person who is shaking a fist at power, when in fact you've been neutralized as an independent threat, reduced to a prop in a show.

Scare the crap out of people, and media companies get richer, while state agencies get more and more license for authoritarian crackdowns on the "folk devil" of the moment. A perfect partnership.

In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope in the room. Everyone inside the Beltway knows this. The Republican voters themselves are the only ones who never saw it. Elections

Instead of looking at humans as potential threats, the Silent Striders look upon them as mere pawns in a much bigger game, much like themselves.

symbolic violence

the modern political warrior seeks to weaponise fake news so that it becomes.....a suicide bomb at the heart of our information system