Whether the author likes it or not, the emotional manipulation genie is out of the bottle. We cannot compete with hundreds of industrial psychologists using att

Whether the author likes it or not, the emotional manipulation genie is out of the bottle. We cannot compete with hundreds of industrial psychologists using attachment theory to bind us to brands, and outrage to sell clicks. We'd have to reorganize our society to reverse the incentive structure of the current arrangement which is ideologically forbidden. Instead it's easy to predict what will come. Those who are particularly affect will have their consequences individualized - it will be a personal moral failure on their part succumbing to the consequences of that influence, or greedy marketeers, or sadly simply "the way the world works" unable to even be reformed lest we unleash even more negative consequences. The way out is never back, it's through and it's structural. We used to be able to imagine a different world, a better world.