You're right. All this is true when dealing with those who are unconscious, live in fear, ruled by their emotions, easily mind controlled, and do not see the illusion of the trickery. Where there is humiliation involved there is always trickery. The wise are not fooled, and nothing is accomplished by these machinations. The most evolved tool is to raise ones consciousness and leave these manipulations to un-evolved beings who actually think they have power when they really do not.