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Does studious use of psychological manipulation techniques make one a genius? Bernays had some fine points figured out 100 years ago. Before then merely instilling fear was pretty useful throughout history. Semantics maybe. THEY're definitely evil; patient, conniving, clever, covert - well, until recently. Not the stuff of genius. -? 2¢

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