From Episode Two of the film series "The Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays started his business life as a publicist. While still in his twenties, he w...
From Episode Two of the film series "The Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays started his business life as a publicist. While still in his twenties, he was part of the propaganda effort that drove the United States into in World War I (WW I.)
He personally advised several US presidents starting with Woodrow Wilson and counseled numerous corporations and business associations. Hitler's propaganda chief and Nazi henchman Joseph Goebbels was a reader and fan of Bernay's writing in particular Bernay's book "Crystalizing Public Opinion."
In this short excerpt from Curtis's film we see one example of Bernays at work.
Bernays was one of the engineers of the Cold War. He perfected the technique of manufacturing a distant but ever-threatening enemy and then creating a constant state of fear by generating false news reports that endlessly re-stated and exagerated the threat.
The stated purpose of Bernay's methods was to give those in power greater control over what he called "the mass mind." It worked well in the 1950s and sadly, it appears to be working quite well today... but maybe not forever.
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This video is communist propaganda. Considering we have bunch of communist revolutionaries as czars working for our president who's ramming Marxist ideas up our ass. I think red hysteria was'nt hysterical enough. It's all true anyway.
Why don't we give much credit to Eisenhower for understanding and speaking out on this hysteria and the Congressional Military Industrial Complex? And yes, they made him omit the word Congressional from the speech when he left office.
Controlling the masses is an age old craft. Remember the kings and tribal chiefs backed by the priesthood and army. So called culture and "traditions' , it's always been about controlling what people believe.
thanks to the innternet we are bombarded with evidence that weve all been played for Years so what do we do? First believe NOTHING the mass media tells us is FACT second always question govt and never believe them on face value and third wake up and start thinking !!
maticoff good point ! but I go with my gut (most people do) and this just instinctively makes sense to me US President Abraham Lincoln said "you can fool all of the people some of the time , but you cant fool all of the people ALL of the time " HE WAS RIGHT !!
from watching all these videos i now realize that man is a monster. and even if there is any intelligent life out there we dont even diserve to be contacted. because man is the most lying backstabbing murders out there.
Become a media mogul, buy up media outlets like Fox, CNBC and others like Roger Ailes of the Republican Party and Rush the drug lush. Set up a propaganda machine where American ideals are subverted to the benefit of the rich. There you go brainwashed!
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good point ! but I go with my gut (most people do) and this just instinctively makes sense to me US President Abraham Lincoln said "you can fool all of the people some of the time , but you cant fool all of the people ALL of the time " HE WAS RIGHT !!