Reply #15: what is the difference between brainwashing and advertising?

[blindpig]

I suspect not much, at least not the way advertising is done today. Points 4, 5, 6 and 8 seem to fit. It all fits together somehow, the mantra of entitlement, "have it your way!", "your deserve a break...", the incessant call to consume. Not only does this facilitate the massive overconsumption which fattens the corporations and ruins the Earth but it enforces the status quo as people are loath to take action or positions which may seperate them from that which they "deserve".

I suspect that a lot more is known about human behavior than is commonly acknowledged and this knowledge is being used to manipulate populations.