Tristan Harris, an expert at Google, reveals dozen tricks tech companies use to “ethically” exploit our psychological vulnerabilities. The magicians start by looking for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of people’s perception, so ... Read more
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Probably most of us watched different blockbusters about superhero who saves the whole world or even the whole Universe, well, sometimes just the country or a small town. Such movies were especially popular in the 90’s and the early 2000’s when ... Read more
Our family is staunch opponents of spending leisure time in front of TV! We are one of those who publicly calls TV as "brainwasher". This device is still in our apartment as monitor but not connected to cable provider. What for? After all, we have ... Read more
"A weapon kills once. A word can kill again and again..." (c) Charles J. Chaput "Linguistic weapon" Today, the majority part of society is beginning to realize that the mass media are not just providing news about current events, as managing ... Read more
Elena Struzhkova, expert of the Center of systemic initiative, Master of agriculture, docent (report at the 5th International Scientific Conference "China and Russia": state development strategies, May, 28th 2018, St.-Petersburg) Cinematography in ... Read more
Anecdotal news about the fact that the negative opinion of fans about the latest Star Wars is also the fault of “Russian trolls”, hides a completely non-funny background and creates a reason for quite serious consequences for the American film ... Read more
Repeated in many articles (including articles written by psychologists), the phrase that a child is equal to us, an adult, a person who has the same desires, opinions, rights like us, in fact is completely untrue. If this is so, then the child ... Read more
Forget programming - the best skill to teach children is reinvention. In this exclusive extract from his new book, the author of Sapiens reveals what 2050 has in store for humankind. Part one: Change is the only constant Humankind is facing ... Read more
On the 19-th of June in Moscow the next rock-festival Maxidrom was held after three-years break, the 1,5 h perfomace of the group Rammstein and its leader Till Lindemann became its main event. When reading the Russian press, the Rammstein's visit to ... Read more
Very many things, which we are now writing about, became clear to us not at once, sometimes years after some first impulse. It was hard to explain what kind of impulse it was, but as a rule it all started with a vague feeling: awkwardness, anxiety, ... Read more
Who are we? Why do we come to this world? What are our motivations for action? What makes us open our eyes in the morning and go out into the world - full of surprises, dangers and exciting adventures? What makes us move forward? Are our aspirations ... Read more
Mobile phones, tablets and computers have long lost their original purpose of communications and calculating machines. Now for most people they perform an entertaining function, the value and meaning of which have completely overshadowed the ... Read more
“Many things are not well understood by us not because our concepts are weak, but because those things lay outside of our concepts” Kozma Prutkov Definition of the term "manipulation" Let us define manipulation as a human control tool that is ... Read more
Far Cry 4 – is a popular computer game (2014 year) by Ubisoft Company. Now computer games have not surprisingly become one of the instruments of influence on the public opinion. All the technologies of mind control, used on TV and in cinematograph, ... Read more
The future is in sober and moral people and even nations, and the future of any nation – are, first of all, its children and youth. That’s why an accent of teetotalling and outreach activity in mass aspect should, one way or another, be oriented ... Read more
It has been much written and told about the image of Russians in American movies, and how precise this image correlates with external policy of the US establishment. Russia – is a geopolitical competitor, meaning that Russians in Hollywood films – ... Read more
Contrary to expectations and hopes of many, moving away from TV-format itself does not serve as an index of changed society’s condition, its rather just creates the ground for further transformation of mindset of the majority of people with virtual ... Read more
One of the most wide-spread arguments sound like: “alcohol and tobacco are presented in our life, that’s why they are in cinematograph as well”. Nobody argues with that: everything, that there is in real life, one way or another will reflect in ... Read more
Technologies of modern advertising For the last decades, especially advanced companies that have large marketing budgets and opportunities that influence the promotion of goods, resort to the following model: even if there is no natural need for ... Read more
As you probably know, 90% of films contain alcohol-tobacco scenes, which is done for narcotization of the population. When you explain how this works, then in the comments under the articles there are people telling that actors, it turns out, are ... Read more
Now, when I’m looking at my laughing and throwing about toys children, I think, it would be very much to the point to write an article about TV, cartoons, clipboards and other things, which hinder our children from being happy. Though at the ... Read more
In my 30 years as a self-improvement coach, the most important insight is that where you put your attention is where your energy goes. If you find that hard to believe, try this: Walk through a crowd. Put your attention on the people. Then walk ... Read more