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Art in Manipulation & Deception: How Influence Shapes Reality and the Human Mind
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From politics to social media, from advertising to personal relationships, manipulation is a subtle art — often invisible, yet profoundly powerful. In this episode, George Monty unpacks the psychological, cultural, and symbolic mechanisms of deception, exploring how art, narrative, and perception can be wielded to shape behavior and belief.
In this episode:
- The psychology of influence and persuasion
- How culture and media engineer consent
- The thin line between storytelling and manipulation
- Recognizing patterns of deception in daily life
- Strategies for awareness and reclaiming autonomy
Transcript:
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Speaker 0 (0s): Hello, everybody. This is going on out there. You're ready for the Thanksgiving. You guys to join your day. I'm enjoying mine. Life can be pretty interesting. Speaking of that, I got, I got an idea. I wanted to share it with you guys. Let me know if this has ever happened to you and if it hasn't, then you should do, or you might want to try this mental exercise.
Have you ever been deceived by your ambition? Does that kind of make sense? Let me give you an example of something that happened to me and then how it made me feel. So obviously I'm stoked on doing the podcast. A lot of cool people I've met and I've talked to, and I really enjoy the way it helps me organize. My thoughts for me.
The goal of my podcast is to share some ideas that I think are interesting to help me develop my thoughts and to maybe leave something behind for my daughter or my grandkids too, listen to their dad, or they were crazy. Grandpa ramble about things were just to get an idea of what it might have been like to talk to me if they listened to this and I'm gone, of course, that would be lying.
If I said it, wouldn't be awesome to make some money, to write as well as reinventing myself. So that being said, I recently got an email about some advertising revenue and immediately I was excited. I was so excited that we're showing people how to look at this. You know, it looks like we have made it more excited. I'm thinking to myself, like Yeah all this hard work is paying off.
You know, when you show up, my ego starts kicking in. I'm like, you know, really have been going over some pretty interesting things lately. I can't believe this didn't come earlier. And so I get all excited and I'm thinking about stuff. And then for a long, like I was stoked for, for hours. And I was like, yes. Awesome. And then I begin to think about it. I like the shininess to begin to wear off. Then I started thinking of things like wood, you want to sell this product?
Why would you want to place this product in your pockets? How would it change your podcasts? How would it change your idea? How much money is it? And as I begin thinking about that, I began to find like chinks in the armor. I began to find out that I didn't really read the email that Well. In fact, all I saw was what I wanted to see. I saw this dollar amount and I saw the possibilities of my life changing from getting up in delivering packages everyday to make me go into like a studio and doing a podcast with interesting people, looking into new ideas and investigating things that I find fascinating and making money to do it.
And so I, I revisited the email and then I realize this is a fucking scam. This wasn't even real. Oh my gosh, what a dummy I am. And like my whole outlook changed. I went from thinking about Yeah, did I
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