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 | | Corporate advertising in America is likely the largest single psychological project ever undertaken by the human race, yet its stunning psychological impact remains ignored by mainstream Western psychologists. |
 | | It is far easier, in the short run, to listen to the commercials, which are always beckoning, always promising, always assuring that this time, with this product or this candidate, it will be possible to fulfill the heart's desire, than to take the initiative of making difficult personal judgments. |
 | | Mammoth quantities of brutally superficial distractions bombard and fill the heads of today's youth, resulting all too often in a complete inability to express anything even remotely seeming to ensue from a rational thought process. |
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