Free Your Mind: The must-read expert guide on how to identify techniques to influence you and how to resist them

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Sosiaalinen manipulointi on ubiikkia ja jatkuvaa, ja sellaista hyödynnetään taitavasti poliittisiin tarkoituksiin. Her previous books 'Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their stories', 'Manhood: The Bare Reality' and 'Womanhood: The Bare Reality' attracted worldwide media coverage and excellent reviews. Are our minds strong enough to withstand the continual interference we face every time we pick up our smartphones – in other words, to think freely? She is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller A State of Fear: how the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as a trilogy of books about the body.

Vastustajat ovat vain muuttuneet kylmän sodan ajoista, ja maailmanpoliisin statusta pyritään pönkittämään väkivaltaviihteen keinoin. The book lets you know about the seemingly convincing tricks that are used on us and how we need to have control over the brain to not fall for it. They argue that a fear of death makes people gullible (while failing to mention the pandemic has killed 7 million people! Heräämisen ensi askeleita ovat harhaluulojen ja faktojen erottaminen toisistaan, jollainen vaatii jonkin verran omaa ajattelua ja erilaisten ilmiöiden pohtimista eri puolilta sekä myös metakognititiivisia taitoja, jolloin kykenemme itse pohtimaan, miksi toimimme ja ajattelemme tietyllä tavalla, ja mihin ja miksi periaatteemme ja arvomme perustuvat johonkin tiettyyn perustaan. Jos oma merenrantapaikka on vielä haaveissa, sen voi toteuttaa ottamalla lainaa, niin paljon kuin pankista irtoaa.

Lisäksi iso osa nykytallaajista pitää sosiaalista mediaa tärkeimpänä uutislähteenään ja jopa kuvittelee sieltä imitoitujen ja omaksuttujen asioiden olevan omaa ajatteluaan. With a heritage stretching back nearly 200 years, HarperCollins is one of the world's foremost English-language publishers, offering the best quality content right across the spectrum, from cutting-edge contemporary fiction to digital hymnbooks and pretty much everything in between. The original Harper Brothers Company was established in New York City in 1817 and over the years published the works of Mark Twain, the Bronte Sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. She is the author of the two instant Sunday Times Bestsellers, 'Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it' (2023) and 'A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic’ (2021).

It deftly exposes the immoral practices of marketing, politics, and big tech in influencing our thoughts and attitudes. However, I knew many of the examples given in the book leading to a perception on my part of unoriginality. You may not notice, but you are surrounded by advertisers, politicians, big tech, even the humble waiter who asks, ‘Still or sparkling? To some extent, they draw on a shared body of scientific studies, as well as on wisdom gleaned from novelists and philosophers, notably George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Plato. They probably believe they deserve a medal because they feel some trans people aren’t brainwashed and that trans people deserve compassion.This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to preserve or regain mental autonomy and resist the subterranean influences and nudges of companies, organisations and governments.