To what extent have our psychology been manipulated by western society?

[MDPopescu]

... if we were a load of Buddhist monks, nothing would get done and no one would buy anything!

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... Buddhist monks in many monasteries in the medieval China lived (quite well) from taxes that were paid by peasants, doe...

(... and those famous Shaolin monks were quite another story, which ended up in the Triads...)

Things aren't what they use to be anymore -- the hipsters from nowadays China don't even know what a Buddhist monk is.

[Hitman Hodgson]

[Mr Ehrmantraut]

Dick Cheney. Bill Cosby. Rob Ryan.

Make of that what you will.

[Weltschmerz]

There are only a small niche perhaps left on the planet not 'manipulated by western society'. And of those, the majority probably just don't realize it yet.

[MDPopescu]

There are only a small niche perhaps left on the planet not 'manipulated by western society'. And of those, the majority probably just don't realize it yet.

... explain me how there ever existed any kind of structured society in the past or present which didn't doesn't manipulate its subjects...

[Weltschmerz]

... explain me how there ever existed any kind of structured society in the past or present which didn't doesn't manipulate its subjects...

Which would fall back on 'society' or 'politics' again -- by 'western society' I'm guessing here that OP perhaps means post-war American capitalist consumer society, which everybody in the west and now beyond are an integral part of whether they like it or not.

[MDPopescu]

Which would fall back on 'society' or 'politics' again -- by 'western society' I'm guessing here that OP perhaps means post-war American capitalist consumer society, which everybody in the west and now beyond are an integral part of whether they like it or not.

... I should go down to Pericles' time...

... and as deep as the "Warring States" period in China...

[AlexKid]

cool thanks, I just sent my family a link to this video for Christmas

[Hitman Hodgson]

cool thanks, I just sent my family a link to this video for Christmas

Another one for you...

[Weltschmerz]

An applicable example at hand........