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Cargando... Mindfucking: A Critique of Mental Manipulationpor Colin McGinn
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  elam11 | May 30, 2020 |   It's more of a treatise than an actual book, and it is an incredibly quick read. It can be taken as a more modern view of [b:On Bullshit|385|On Bullshit|Harry G. Frankfurt|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347810709s/385.jpg|4682], and owes a lot to the previous book (as it says) but it easily stands on its own as well. If you're looking for an interesting psychological study of manipulation, here it is. If you're looking for something a lot deeper and involved? Well, you'll have to look elsewhere. (  ) Lepophagus | Jun 14, 2018 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Being surrounded by bullshit is one thing. Having your mind fucked is quite another. The former is irritating, but the latter is violating and intrusive (unless you give your consent). If someone manipulates your thoughts and emotions, messing with your head, you naturally feel resentment: he or she has distorted your perceptions, disturbed your feelings, maybe even usurped your self. Mindfucking is a prevalent aspect of contemporary culture and the agent can range from an individual to a whole state, from personal mind games to wholesale propaganda. In Mindfucking Colin McGinn investigates and clarifies this phenomenon, taking in the ancient Greeks, Shakespeare and modern techniques of thought control. McGinn assembles the conceptual components of this most complex of concepts - trust, deception, emotion, manipulation, false belief, vulnerability - and explores its very nature. Is philosophy, as a discipline, a type of mindfuck, asks McGinn? Is romantic love a species of mindfuck? The essence is psychological upheaval or disorientation, often abetted by the weaknesses of the victim. Jealousy, insecurity and prejudice can aid the mindfuck. Delusion is the general result, sometimes insanity. How mindfucked are you? It's hard to say from the inside, but being aware of the phenomenon offers at least some protection. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The bulk of this... essay, really, focuses on the bad mindfuck -- mental manipulation, as the title suggests. Besides the absence of trolling, I did kind of wonder why "manipulation" wasn't good enough a label. I'm also unsure how to reconcile the good mindfuck with the bad, since most of this writing emphasizes mindfucks as manipulative to ill end, potentially capable at worst of steering a victim towards insanity. Oh but also romance and falling in love are a mindfuck**, and movies with shocking twist endings are a mindfuck, and his own introduction to the term mindfuck was a bit of a mindfuck. He pushes the analogy of physical fucking versus rape to set up that kind of symmetry, but it got short shrift.
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**not untrue, and I'm not even totally sure I'd classify this as a wholly "good" side of mindfucking examples
*** but then again, he stretches the analogy to include seeds of ideas being planted in a fucked-mind, and certainly there's a good bit here that could germinate some more...