September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
The world is full of people and organisations who want you to do or believe what they tell you. From advertising campaigns to fake news, we’re all surrounded by manipulative information intended to push us into buying this tin of beans, listening to this music, wearing these clothes, voting for that candidate.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t much care for being told what to do, and even less for being told how to think. I like to make my own decisions, form my own views, thank you very much.
Then again, I do have to buy tins of beans, and wear clothes, and indeed I choose to listen to music and to vote. And some of those messages that I read or hear or see online do sound quite appealing. Maybe they really ...