[UA] UA:cults

[Ysidro]

On 7/15/05, Unknown VariableX <unknown_variablex at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I forget the proper technical term, but personally call it
> control-of-options, since that what it seems like. Whether you're in a cult,
> a business, or just want to have your way in a group of people, you want to
> give people the illusion of choice while actually giving them little choice
> at all. People who think they have no choice will usually resist anybody
> trying to force choices on them; this is the biggest arguement in favor of
> the world being ruled in secret by some shadowy agency or society like the
> Illuminati or Freemasons.
> 

Yup, the technique is used all the time.  Hell, I was taught to use it
in retail sales.  "Which card would you like to use to pay for this?"
"So, do you want the black or the gray?" and so forth.

Done right it's powerful.  Done wrong it's just annoying.

Greg "thinks the world is run by hamsters"


-- 
"The essence of balance is detachment. To embrace a cause, to grow fond or 
spiteful, is to lose one's balance, after which, no action can be trusted. Our 
burden is not for the dependent of spirit."
     -- Mayar, Third Keeper