this looks interesting... but freud? people must have come up with something better than that by now.

you know... if you think that no politicians, governments, companies, 'artists' have tried to manipulate the public since the nazis you are severely deluded.

Read the 48 laws of Power.

ANNALS OF POWER about Robert Greene and his book “The 48 Laws of Power,” which is popular among the hip-hop crowd… The first law of power, as set forth by Green, is “Never Outshine the Master.” The first law has achieved special resonance in the hip-hop community, which has adopted Greene's book as a hallowed text, and Greene himself as a kind of sage. The rapper Busta Rhymes describes how Greene's book helped handle a production executive on the film “Halloween: Resurrection.”… Greene is 47 years old and lives in Los Angeles. He began writing “The 48 Laws” after having held, by his count, eighty jobs. The book has sold more than 800,000 copies in the U.S.… Describes a meeting between Greene and the rapper 50 Cent, who wants to collaborate with Greene on a street version of “The 48 Laws.”… Greene was a good student and something of a loner. He went to Berkeley and then transferred to the University of Wisconsin to study Ancient Greek. Tells about his attempts to become a screenwriter and then a playwright. Greene spent much of his twenties living in Europe. In Paris, he learned to appreciate the seduction game. Tells about his book “The Art of Seduction.” Greene comes across as both reserved and sincere, a canny question-asker and embarrassment-revealer-a regular guy. He professes not to be a practitioner of his own power rules… While in New York, Greene stayed in one of several apartments belonging to Dov Charney, who owns American Apparel. Charney compares Greene to Isaac Newton… Tells about the history of the self-help genre, from Aristotle, though Samuel Smiles, to Dale Carnegie… Quincy Jones III, the son of the music producer, is making a documentary about “The 48 Laws” and their ubiquity in the “urban realm.” “I view it more as an empowerment tool than as a way to screw people.”… Another of Greene's friends is Karrine Steffens, a.k.a. Superhead, who slept with a host of hip-hop celebrities and then wrote a book about them, “Confessions of a Video Vixen.” Tells about Greene's relationship with Joost Elffers, who acted as a mentor and literary agent to Greene when he was writing “The 48 Laws.” Originally, Greene wrote 52 laws, but the publishers felt that 52 was not a good number… Greene has several new books in mind: a unified theory of power, seduction, and war and on

Videotape.

Totally.

Ok fine maybe videotape is a little dated.

Place hidden cameras all over the office, the supply room, the refrigerator, the smoking area, you are bound to catch your office workers doing something they didn't want to be seen doing, nothing manipulates better than blackmail.

ask yerr mother, diseasedanus, how she managed ta convince you ta be a fine young man and not become a total psychopath like Gordon Campbell.

i swear, that tool of a Premier would score 25 on the Hare test for psychopaths while you and I wouldn't ge more than 9.

Though the rest of CV will barely get a 6.

It's been said that psychopaths and their lower classed sociopath brethren make the worst leaders, since you and I can see through their lies. Even their supporters see through their lies.

But the number one rule of leadership says that effective use of police and other forms of control allows even liars to remain in power.

Another form of control is to institute a rating system which is biased towards the ruling class. The IQ test is a good example of this, as is the use of shrinks who specialize in schizophrenia diagnosis.

Another form of social control is to tax vices, and allow it to proliferate. This is why we have cigarettes, booze and pr0n for adults.

Within the corporate environment, being a policy Nazi is a form of social control. Because the average employee is sometimes willing to break the rules, especially if a policy is deemed contrary to the rights and decency of the common man, the policy Nazi can curry favour from the boss by outing rule-breakers within the corporate structure.

So dieasedanus, you just have to pretend to be the right man for the job where you work to manage others. However, get the OKAY from the boss in writing before implementing the 4th Reich in the office.

I would also consider blaming "lazy and useless" people as the cause of lower productivity in the offfice. They should be the scapegoat for your incompetency.

You also have to go to rehab for any drug addictions. People tend to sympathize with anyone with the balls to admit to their vices. As well, 12-step programs have inflexible rules that can apply to the management of people.

Why are you not banned yet you fvcking kook.

There is some interesting information on how governments have tried to control the public with psychology in a documentary called "Century of Self" It can be found on a site called sprword.com if i recall correctly.

I was fresh off a bit of a bender when i watched it so my memory may be a bit sketchy of it, but i believe they were discussing some of Freud's theories, about people being inherently bad. The governments concern was that if left to their own devices they would commit atrocities therefore they were trying to find ways to keep them cool, calm and collected so to speak. Interesting stuff and i need to watch it again when i'm not falling asleep; actually i only watched 3 out of 4...so need to finish it.