Vance Packard Quotes

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At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.

Vance Packard

The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.

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Probing and manipulation... has seriously antihumanistic implications. Much of it seems to represent regress rather than progress for man in his long struggle to become a rational and self-guiding being. Something new, in fact, appears to be entering the pattern of American life with the growing power of our persuaders.

Vance Packard

In the field of marketing... the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling... of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard.

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Vance Packard

Vance Packard

Born: May 22, 1914

Died: December 12, 1996 (aged 82)

Bio: Vance Packard was an American journalist, social critic, and author.

Known for:

The hidden persuaders (1957)
The Waste Makers (1960)
The Status Seekers (1959)
The Naked Society (1964)
American social classes in the 1950s (1995)

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