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How to Slay a Wizard

by Owen Benjamin

Manipulation and the mechanics of belief

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Manipulation and the mechanics of belief

Owen Benjamin frames the book around the “spells” that shape what people accept as true, linking them to lessons and explanations he recalls from childhood. The description points to a broad inquiry into who uses these forms of manipulation, how they work, and the role of participation in making them effective. Its examples range from school safety and drug education to accounts of human origins and the universe, bringing everyday instruction and larger explanatory systems under the same scrutiny. The book is presented as an examination of influence and belief, rather than as a guide to politics or religion.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in books about manipulation and persuasion
  • Readers curious about how education and explanations shape beliefs

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Manipulation and persuasionBelief and participationEducation and authorityExplanations of human origins and the universe

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Book overview

THE SECRET GUIDE TO WORD MAGIC

Owen Benjamin grew up hiding under a cardboard desk to survive a nuclear blast, eating margarine because the food pyramid said so, and learning about heroin from a cop who made him act out an overdose in school. He was taught he descended from a primate through random mutation, that he was spinning on a ball of liquid nickel inside an explosion that came from nothing, and that the stars he saw at night were already dead.

How to Slay a Wizard is about the people who run the tricks, the tricks themselves, and the one lie at the root of every spell ever cast on a living man or woman. It is not a political book. It is not a religious book. It is a book about manipulation, who does it, how it works, and why it requires your participation to be effective.

Once you see the secret spells, you will never stop seeing them.

And then the wizards can no longer deceive you.

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