Wilson Bryan Key, Ph.D. – The Age of Manipulation (The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere)

In our quest “to be in the know” are we compromising our capacity for unadulterated thought? In this startling book, Dr. Wilson Bryan Key exposes the devious and sophisticated strategies that advertisers use in newspapers, magazines, and television to manipulate and seduce our thoughts and senses. He explores how the media establishes our “reality” and why, subsequently, Americans are the most manipulated people in the world. This provocative book will forever change the way you view the world around you.”We are all at the mercy of influences over which we are consciously unaware and over which we have virtually no conscious control.” ~ Robert Rosenthal”If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not alarm anyone morally, you yourself remain morally asleep. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift of the coming human hell.” ~ C. Wright Mills Table of ContentsForeword: The Battle of BeliefsAuthor’s WarningPart One – Subliminal Media Technology:                Bending Minds in Pursuit of Power and Profit1. For Those Who Think They Think for Themselves2. How to Get Inside the Open Mind—Undetected3. The Underside of ConsciousnessPart Two – Language and Culture: The Tools of Indoctrinability4. Media—The Brainwashing Laundromat5. How We Know That We Know That We Know6. The Real Thing—Symbolic Realities7. Cause and Effect—The Greatest Illusion of All8. The Expectations of Stereotypes9. Self-Fulfilling Prophecies10. The Self-Sealing World of objectivity11. The Permanently Closed Mind