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A nation of strangers Hardcover – January 1, 1972 by Vance Oakley Packard (Author)

  A nation of strangers  Hardcover – January 1, 1972 by  Vance Oakley Packard   (Author) Vance Packard, one of our most incisive social commentators, in this book deals with an urgent problem: the mass uprooting and the fragmentation of our society, which is turning into a "nation of strangers". We are living in a continually changing environment, fast relinquishing a basic human need: a sense of community. Forty million Americans now lead feebly rooted lives. At least a fifth of all Americans move one or more times a year, and the pace is increasing. What new institutions is this rootlessness creating.? What is its impact on our values, our behavior, our emotional well-being? https://www.amazon.com/nation-strangers-Vance-Oakley-Packard/dp/B0006C4RBA?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.co2unvVvW_u5LWD-ic1idnYeF1ir43RzBhYFJcboScckh4ZISNkt66c337jUJbm_foVBWfqGvZHqkctn3TLWMkom1plDtEIlipNBna54ZEMnd0assbjj-Wv08ArMWEitdptn7tL40kNkIwImhMlYVmiKF0HReAKe55pb_RsCyChRUbqCAyi-Xc3HLExAZ

The Sexual Wilderness: The Contemporary Upheaval in Male-Female Relationships. Hardcover – January 1, 1968 by Vance Packard (Author)

  The Sexual Wilderness: The Contemporary Upheaval in Male-Female Relationships.  Hardcover – January 1, 1968 by  Vance Packard   (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Wilderness-Contemporary-Male-Female-Relationships/dp/0679501630?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.co2unvVvW_u5LWD-ic1idnYeF1ir43RzBhYFJcboScckh4ZISNkt66c337jUJbm_foVBWfqGvZHqkctn3TLWMkom1plDtEIlipNBna54ZEMnd0assbjj-Wv08ArMWEitdptn7tL40kNkIwImhMlYVmiKF0HReAKe55pb_RsCyChRUbqCAyi-Xc3HLExAZ1TS96-MZNHgwONdDyLnDAcc_BFTwGRyRj_jvH-vBCYczys.x7gcQdaJC2vhUdwSl7O1AlZ1f6Uloy0yTFNe4m2MixM&dib_tag=AUTHOR

The Waste Makers Paperback – October 4, 2011 by Vance Packard (Author), Bill McKibben (Introduction)

The Waste Makers  Paperback – October 4, 2011 by  Vance Packard   (Author),  Bill McKibben   (Introduction) https://www.amazon.com/Waste-Makers-Vance-Packard/dp/1935439375   An exposé of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals,"  The Waste Makers  is Vance Packard's pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental, financial, and spiritual character of American society. The Waste Makers  was the first book to probe the increasing commercialization of American life—the development of consumption for consumption's sake. Packard outlines the ways manufacturers and advertisers persuade consumers to buy things they don't need and didn't know they wanted, including the two-of-a-kind of everything syndrome—"two refrigerators in every home"—and appeals to purchase something because it is more expensive, or because it is painted in a new

"Bread and circuses"

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  "Bread and circuses" (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to  Juvenal  (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.

The People Shapers - Audiobook - Chapters 1-3

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THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS

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THE 7 TACTICS OF HIDDEN PERSUADERS October 19, 2014 6 Comments SHARE In 1957,  The Hidden Persuaders  was published. It quickly gained national attention and launched  Vance Packard’s  (the author) career. The Hidden Persuaders  lays bare the use of consumer  motivational research  and other psychological techniques, including depth psychology and  subliminal  messaging, by advertisers and politicians to manipulate expectations and induce desire for products and candidates. He identified eight “compelling needs” that advertisers promise products will fulfil. Emotional security:  promise comfort, happiness, security, and no bad feelings. Reassurance of worth:  As L’Oreal reminds us: you should have it, ‘Because you’re worth it!’, and once you have ‘it’, it will serve to symbolize to you and others that you are adding value and deserve your place in society. You’re one of the ‘set’, who are worth it. I assume those who can’t afford their products, by implication, are worth-less? Ego grat