Given the applied-psychology deliberate manipulation that goes on nowadays—in advertising, sales, and marketing ... in politics ... in courtrooms ... in how-to guides for attracting and seducing other people—wouldn't it be good for society as a whole if everyone had a chance to learn, throughout their years of elementary education, how to recognize and counteract mind games?

(cf. Liberal Arts (2003-03-13), ...) - ^z - 2008-08-31

(correlates: FreakingTheMundanes, TechnicalShirt, StingingDialect, ...)