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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Engineering consent

This short video on YouTube presents the beginnings of thinking about "engineering consent," a terms Bernays used to describe methods of manipulating and pacifying the masses in a democracy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15G1XX0wNYM

It fits with our DVD "The Persuaders," and the notion of reptillian hot buttons, the emotional core that is posited to drive our decisions as consumers.

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