How Those in Power Manipulate the Masses into Conformity.
Two percent of the people think, three percent of the people think they think, and ninty-five percent of the people would rather die than think. George Bernard Shaw Those who control the media, academia, the corporate world and government often weaponize our survival instincts and basic human nature against us. For instance, humans require sex in order to reproduce, but media dangles images in front of us to entice the purchase of products that have nothing to do with sex, much less reproduction. In the same way, those in power use the human trait of bonding and support to manipulate us using a psycho-sociological strategy called “social learning theory.” So, what is social learning theory? It is a concept based on the how humans learn to behave in a social context. ...