Manipulation & Consent
The Belfast rape trial points towards a society where young people are not sexually educated to hold on to what’s right for them as individuals.
Manipulation & Consent
I’ve just watched Derren Brown’s show The Push on Netflix and had quite a visceral response to watching someone manipulated into betraying their own ethics, humanity and social conscience to the extent that they are ‘pushed’ into committing murder. Of course, this is the whole point of the show, which manipulates us, the audience, in turn. It’s a Trump-era warning à la the 1960s Milgram Obedience Experiments, which explored how ‘justified’ the defence of ‘following orders’ was to excuse responsibility for Nazi mass-murder.
To me, the show is an important demonstration of how each of us can be manipulated because of our insecurities, our need to belong and be accepted. Such exploitative manoeuvrings, central to the art of advertising and social media anxieties, compromise our individuality gently and slowly, inviting us into photoshopping small deceits and betrayals, the purpose of which are to lead the individual three steps too far without their even realising it. You have to be in so deep that you can’t even question how you got there. In our urgency to have an app or ‘upgrade’, how many of us notice, never mind read, the online small print before consenting ‘yes’?
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