Manipulation is getting what you want by ignoring or harming the desires of others. Manipulators use charm, persuasion, trickery, and misdirection. The underlying idea is "I have to fool people to make them give me what I want." When they are really caught up in their plan, manipulators even imagine that they are doing their victims a favor - after all, who wouldn't feel good helping out a guy who's so entertaining?
You can catch yourself falling into this behavior when you aren't listening to other people, when you ignore what they want and when you pretend that your desires cost nobody else a price. The presence of a manipulator brings tension, strain, complaints and conflict to a situation. Some people use passive manipulations - they come up with "poor me" situation to charm sympathy and pity out of others so others think they are wrong. One type of manipulation is TV manipulation.
Television has now become an indispensable part of most household. Statistic s shows that people spend 50 hours a week in front of a television. Is television just a harmless entertainer as it is typically projected out to be, or is it being used as a powerful mind control weapon by maliciously motivated people? Is it being used purely for commercial/marketing purposes (as we all think) or are there deeper hidden agendas as well? Considering the amount of time most of us spend in front of the TV, we owe it to ourselves to understand what really goes on behind the