Popular entertainment is all about manipulating your emotions. That's one of the reasons we like it -- because it can induce that little rush we're always talking about around here.
But it's a pretty powerful skill -- so powerful, as the Firesign Theatre reminds us, that it can only be used for Good ... or Evil.
Consider his odd little artifact we stumbled on over on YouTube a while back. And see how hard it is not to laugh at this extremely serious scene -- also EXTREMELY NSFW!! -- from the grim and now cancelled cop drama, The Wire. It reminds us just how suggestable we poor humans are. Which is kind of scary all by itself.
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