Manipulation by a person is a powerful tool for influencing both any individual and society as a whole, allowing you to manage people and shape public opinion, to impose any stereotypes, opinions and patterns. It is carried out using the most popular method - the media. The information field created by them simply does not allow people to break out, because by definition it cannot be neutral, invariably conveying the mood and opinion of the author.
Manipulation by a person is carried out using several principles that are widely known and used universally.
First of all, you need to know more about the audience than she knows about herself. Extensive material for this is provided by science: over the past decades, psychology, biology, neurobiology have accumulated such vast information about human nature that manipulating the human consciousness does not pose the slightest problem. It is only necessary to circumvent the critical attitude, reason and value judgment. An example of such manipulation is the use of sex and sexuality even in advertising, attracting the attention of buyers to the product.
The authorities of any country often use a different trick that helps to manipulate public opinion: they saturate the country's information field with insignificant events and news, distracting people from what is really important. As a result, for example, society breaks the spears over a trifling issue, and the most important innovation for people's lives is carried out unnoticed and adopted in the form of a law, without causing any opposition. News releases are built on the same principle: a lot of stories about wars and misfortunes in other countries, and only a running line is news about important changes in the legislation.
Manipulation by a person is carried out by creating problems, and then throwing up ways to solve them. For example, it is possible to create a situation in which the population will react extremely negatively and require urgent measures from the government. But it was precisely for this that the calculation was made. As a result, laws are adopted that are necessary for the authorities: security measures are intensified, which in fact infringe on the rights and freedoms of citizens.
Another popular method is the gradual use and dosing of information so as not to cause panic. As a result, people are unaware of the true scale of tragedy and misfortune, and there are no revolutions.
Manipulation by a person is also carried out with the help of deferment of execution: that is, to promise to execute unpopular measures not now, but in the uncertain future. And people really do it.
The same is achieved by addressing people as children: such infantilism in speech circulation reduces the critical mood and inspires confidence in what has been said.
Emphasis on emotions is equally important. At the same time, it is important to avoid in every possible way that a person comes to his senses and thinks, brings arguments and arguments. The ignorance of society plays into the hands of the manipulators: it is for this that educational systems are destroyed, society is stupid, thinking people are destroyed or expelled.
All these and other methods of manipulation are used to one degree or another in any country and any society, and it is possible to defend oneself only by using a critical approach, caution, an inquiring mind. And, of course, checking the information before trusting it.