If a product is good, and suits my needs, I will buy it. Not because someone manipulated me into thinking the company that provides it is my best buddy.
i get what your saying, but try this: Just about everything you do is based on some sort of what you call moral manipulation. From birth we are molded by our parents, to make informed decisions about what to accept and what NOT to be swayed by, when in fact THAT is a manipulation in itself. Manipulation is not all of the bad flavor; we all do it in our everyday lives. Perhaps you should look at life a little more optimisticly and not think everyone is out to sell you shit you don't want.
Friction is a drag.