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Vance Packard

In the field of marketing. . . the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling. . . of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard.

Conscious, Marketing, Messages, Past, Selling, Technique
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done

Appears, Art, Done, Leadership

New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.

American, Character, Materialism, People, Satisfaction, Self

The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.

Characteristic, Citizens, Common, Home, Mail, Police

As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to see blue skies. . . What was needed was strategies that would make Americans in large numbers into voracious, wasteful, compulsive consumers-and strategies that would provide products assuring such wastefulness. Even where wastefulness was not involved, additional strategies were needed that would induce the public to consume at ever-higher levels.

Blue, Consume, Numbers, Products, Sky, Wasteful

At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.

Agency, America, Identify, Largest, People
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