Consider this article entitled “Both candidates make misstatements on health issues” written by Calvin Woodward for the Associated Press. The article appeared in the Wednesday, October 18, 2000 edition of The Miami Herald…
“The vice president also made an attack on drug companies that conflicts with independent studies. Gore claimed that drug makers ‘are now spending more on advertising and promotion—you see all the ads—than they are on research and development.’
In fact, the industry spent between 5.8 billion and 8.3 billion on promotion and 21 billion on research and development in 1998, according to a Kaisea Family Foundation study in July. There has been a 20-fold increase in TV drug advertising over the past six years.”
Misstatement or not, that is a whole lot of money being spent to promote drugs. While reading the, March 6, 2000 issue of U.S. News & World Report, I happened upon a statement that is rather disturbing in the Outlook section entitled “Drug Research: The Ties That Bind” by Bruce B. Auster with Kevin Whitelaw, K. Sobel, David Makovsky, and Jannie Schrof Fisher.
“Nearly half of the articles evaluating drugs in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine since 1997 were written by scientists who worked as paid advertisers to the drug makers or received major research funding from them…
With scientists addicted to the $24 billion pharmaceuticals inject into research, most medical journals no longer require authors to stay independent of industry.”
As disturbing as that statement is, I was far more disturbed by the cover story in that same issue of the U.S. News & World Report entitled “The Perils of Pills: The psychiatric medication of children is dangerously haphazard” by Nancy Shute, Toni Locy, and Douglas Pasternak with Susan Brink, Mary Lord, John S. MacNeil, Mark E. Madden, Stacy Shultz and Rachel Sobel.
“Startling as it is, the news about toddlers merely underscores the rise in the use of powerful psychiatric drugs in kids of all ages—despite the fact that these drugs are largely untested for use in the young. According to the surgeon general, almost 21 percent of children age 9 and up have a mental disorder, including depression, attention deficit disorder, and bipolar disorder…”
Many children do not do well in school, today, because the manipulations of our emotions, ideals, and sexuality have them mentally and emotionally disturbed. Our young sisters and brothers are just experiencing the power of their drives while being pushed and pulled, to and fro, in a psychologically manipulative society. In many cases, they are preyed upon by a Capitalist psychology that is only concerned with the bottom line!!!

“Aristotle recognized that rhetoric could be used to mislead as well as enlighten the public. Persuasive speakers could lead the audience to unwise choices. For this reason, he argued that rhetoric should be widely taught and understood, so that the wise members of society would be able to contend effectively with the rhetoric of the unwise…
Aristotle’s analysis is over 2,300 years old, but it offers the best solution that we have found to the problem of democracy in our own age—the age of public relations. Today’s opinion manipulated industry is a powerful giant, but like Goliath, it is a giant with a fatal weakness. When the public is educated about its techniques, it often loses its ability to mislead and manipulate.” from Toxic Sludge Is Good For You! by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton.
We must inform and educate ourselves to the guiles of psychological manipulation(the uses of evil, fears, desires, despair, and so on to warp the peoples’ will). Once we are informed and educated, the psychological manipulation of the psyche will become apparent.

A form of psychological warfare is being used against us through Media—including the Press, today. Capitalism banks not only on our humanity, but also on our fears and takes steps to keep those fears fresh in our minds. They try to bind us at an early age. In a form of perverted nascent sublimation, they attempt to get us emotionally hooked on the manipulations. The effects are cumulative. As one attaches more and more emotion to the manipulations, the stronger the sway becomes. The logical fallacies, bias, inflated drives, and so on insinuated through influential sources bear a certain relevance to the manipulative environment propagated through Media, today.
“Propagandists love short-cuts—particularly those which short-circuit rational thought. They encourage this by agitating emotion, by exploiting insecurities, and by bending the rules of logic. As history shows, they can be quite successful.” from (9AI)Propaganda Analysis Homepage—Introduction by Aaron Delwiche.
As a youth, my sexual desire was aroused at the slightest mention of sex, in part, because I was whipped into a sexual frenzy by the constant insinuation of sex through Media. The fact that sexual desire—an instinctual drive—is used to manipulate us is a matter of major concern here. Sexual desire is not the only drive that can be whipped into a frenzy by constant insinuation through Media.

What used to be called sensationalism is now called spin. Spin is the latest label for the ongoing psychological manipulation of the Public. These tactics were developed over millennia. They are being used against the people through Media—including the Press, today.

An example: I was watching a Spanish TV network, I don't recall which one it was, and I noticed the psychological tactics that are of concern here.

There was an older lady waving down a taxi(it was some kind of dramatization in a show). When she got in, two rough looking thugs got in with her and held a gun to her and the driver—one of them glared at the camera(the big mean looking one) —just before they cut to a news-related bit about *corruption* in the gambling industry. The word *corruption* was emphasized in a highly insinuating, acidic female voice(the word was repeated several times in the 10-20 seconds that this coverage lasted). Then, they cut straight to coverage of Election 2000...
I noticed the psychologically manipulative tactics because I was thinking along those lines at the time. I probably wouldn't have noticed if I understood the words the *actors* were speaking.

The moral of the story?
Spanish television networks are emulating their English counterparts. Perhaps, they are one and the same.

The fact is that the most influential sources of information in America present themselves as trustworthy while shoving a Science of Manipulation down the throats of the people on a daily basis in the name of Capitalism! One of Capitalism's tactics is to lull the people into a state of indifference so its pocket voters can elect officials and its lobbyists can influence legislators to get Laws passed.

1. Fear is a catalyst to psychological manipulation. That—and not spin—is the reasoning behind today's broadcasting.

2. Capitalism pays Media's bills, not ratings, not Public opinion...
Parents are in competition for their kids' attentions with Capitalism. Capitalism does not have the kids' best interests at heart—to say the least. It is obvious—both through underhanded tactics and dangerous products, including food and drugs—that Capitalistic psychology is in violation of Public health and trust!

The Public is often too involved in the pursuit of happiness to be so critical of information sources—that is what Capitalism banks on.
We are mislead and misrepresented through the Capitalist leaning Media—today.

Many children do not do well in school, today, because the manipulations of our emotions, ideals, and sexuality have them mentally and emotionally disturbed. Television, movies, music, magazines, and so on with the disease of psychological manipulation in them are mentally and emotionally taxing, especially for the younger generations with their emotions constantly peeking, and striving to understand the World around them from the inside out.

The fact that our very humanity is used to manipulate us is a matter of major concern here. Now, I can bear the pain, but I can no longer bear the silence!

If Freedom is to be ensured, (10AI)We the People will ensure it. Democracy works. It is just being taken serious advantage of at this time.
With everyone who does something about it, Humanity comes a step closer to Freedom.
Those of our brothers and sisters who sacrificed for Freedom—throughout Time—did not sacrifice for a half-freedom. They sacrificed for a Whole Freedom!

The labors and songs of Life are not in vain. It is through our songs and labors that we will know mental freedom as well as physical freedom.
Brothers and Sisters, we have allowed our vision to be clouded by lies for too long. Let us return to the truth. We are Good People. We are natural born believers. Let us expose and denounce the psychological manipulation the psyche.

Feel free to use any of the concepts you find here in any form that furthers the cause of Freedom.
If you would like to discuss the development of this theme, visit the forum:Psychological Freedom