>>6148685Nah it's alright, i get what you mean. We've all been manipulated at some point in our lives. Perhaps all social interaction is manipulation in some sense, as your always changing the conversation to suit your needs, as is the other people engaged in it. This isn't in the negative form of manipulation either, as it's a mutual thing and a necessary facet of all human interaction. I'm kinda thinking of it as a craft of some sort, like slowly making something over the course of the conversation, or even fitting together a puzzle made up of multiple viewpoints. That's probably the best way i can contextualise it for myself, though it all sounds very pretentious
