The use of mass psychoanalysis to guide campaigns of persuasion has become the basis of a multimillion-dollar industry. Professional persuaders have seized upon it in their groping for more effective ways to sell us their wares—whether products, ideas, attitudes, candidates, goals, or states of mind. . . . What the probers are looking for, of course, are the whys of our behavior, so that they can more effectively manipulate our habits and choices in their favor.
a) Vance Packard Warns Against Hidden Persuaders
b) George Packer's article about the travels of second hand clothes and making it to Africa.
c) Malvina Reynolds called Little Boxes
d) Vance Packard Warns Against Hidden Persuaders
