Propaganda: Mind Manipulation and Manufacturing Consent. By Joe Dubs. Guest Writer for Wake Up World“The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. In practice, the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly — freedoms that make engineering consent possible — have tacitly expanded our Bill of Rights to include the right of persuasion.” ~ Edward Bernays, the “father of propaganda”. Propaganda, known today euphemistically as ‘public relations’, is the manufacturing of consent. Propaganda dominated by the relatively small number of per- sons—a trifling fraction of our hundred and twenty million—who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires. 'Propaganda becomes ineffective the moment we are aware of it' --Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) 'If consumers are aware that they are being propagandized, the choice to accept or reject the message is theirs alone.' --Jowett & O. Readbag users suggest that PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS is worth reading. The file contains 186 page(s) and is free to view, download or print. Propaganda, an influential book written by Edward L. Bernays in 1928, incorporated the literature from social science and psychological manipulation into an examination of the techniques of public communication. Bernays wrote. Edward Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995) was an Austrian-born American publicist, sometimes called 'the father of public relations'. Quotes. The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as. Jonas Staal Art. Democratism. Propaganda. There is something deeply propagandistic in the disappearance of the notion of propaganda from artistic discourse. The word only resurfaces bluntly to dismiss certain practices as one. In Propaganda (1928), Bernays argued that the manipulation of public opinion was a necessary part of democracy: The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important. Edward Bernays: “The Father of Spin” and Mastermind Behind the Selling of Fluoridation - the guide on how to fight fluoridation propaganda with more propaganda. Propaganda, or ‘public relations’, is the manufacturing of consent. It’s vital that we understand the methods of manipulation that are being used against us.Propaganda is the act of deliberately spreading false or deceptive information, ideas, rumors, doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement to help or harm a target person, group of people, movement, institution, nation, etc. It’s the distortion of information to suit a particular agenda. Along with its ‘proper’ use comes the ability to control the masses and mold the collective mind. Propaganda is so pervasive in our culture, we have trouble discerning what information is real and what is not. It’s become increasingly difficult to tell the truth from the lies, even with the power of the internet. Time has given these mind manipulators lots of practice to hone their skills. It’s important to realize the magnitude of manipulation that is being perpetrated against mankind. Things are not what they seem. The facts have been twisted and used against us and for private interests. What we think we collectively know is engineered by these shadow figures, this invisible government that hovers over us, controlling our every seemingly independent decision. A man named Edward Bernays was one of the most prominent mind manipulators. Considered the “Father of Propaganda†he was hired by corporations and governments to use our human emotions against us, often for nefarious purposes that serve the elite and compromised the integrity of the common folk. He is the reason we put so much attachment on materialistic things. We don’t want a new car, we need that new car! His uncle just so happened to be the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, so he used his uncle’s psychological know- how to penetrate the collective mind, shaping public opinion to suit the interests of whomever had the most money and power at the time.“The conscious intelligent manipulation of the organized opinions and habits of the masses is an important element in a democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of. In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.” ~ Edward Bernays. We can thank this guy for the public’s acquiescence to war, water fluoridation, bacon for breakfast, and the reason women started smoking in the 1. He was hired by governments and corporations to sway public opinion on the side of investors. This alludes to an inherent problem in our society: the system in place today that passes for capitalism and democracy always puts monetary incentives above the interests of the common man and health of planet Earth.“Torches of Freedom” was a phrase used to encourage women’s smoking by exploiting women’s aspirations for a better life during the women’s liberation movement in the United States. Cigarettes were described as symbols of emancipation and equality with men. The term was first used by psychoanalyst A. A. Brill when describing the natural desire for women to smoke, and was used by Edward Bernays to encourage women to smoke in public despite social taboos. Bernays hired women to march while smoking their “torches of freedom†in the Easter Sunday Parade of 1. One of the best forms of propaganda, if not the best, is the motion picture. Hollywood, movies, and cinema are powerful opinion shapers that prey on the subconscious mind.“The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.â€Â ~ Edward Bernays(For more information, please see the article: Hollywood and The CIA: A Dark Marriage Revealed.)Consent is manufactured, and whether we acknowledge it or not, our choices are made for us. Misinformation and disinformation are tools used by the orchestrators of mind manipulation. When oppressive action is desired, acquiescence is created. It’s a lot like September 1. For these dark forces seek to gobble up the freedom of mankind, an event must transpire to allow the citizens to beg for war and their liberties taken away. A problem was staged to generate a public reaction that would consent to a predetermined “solution” — war and tighter legal control. The Hegelian Dialectic:  Problem- Reaction- Solution. The first step (thesis) is to create a problem. The second step (antithesis) is to generate opposition to the problem (fear, panic and hysteria). The third step (synthesis) is to offer the solution to the problem created by step one: a change which would have been impossible to impose upon the people without the proper psychological conditioning (ie. One of Bernays’ favorite techniques for garnering public opinion was appealing to the authority figure. If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. In order to promote sales of bacon, for example, he conducted a survey of physicians and reported their recommendation that people eat heavy breakfasts. He sent the results of the survey to 5,0. Sales went through the roof. To Bernays it didn’t matter what was right, what mattered was the price of the job and the satisfaction of being able to brainwash the masses. He describes this ability in his book Propaganda written in 1. If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.” ~ Edward Bernays (Propaganda 1. Walter Lippmann, another purveyor of propaganda, stated in his book “Public Opinion“: “The manufacture of consent is not a new art. It is a very old one which was supposed to have died out with the appearance of democracy. But it has not died out. It has, in fact, improved enormously in technique… Under the impact of propaganda, it is no longer possible … to believe in the original dogma of democracy… Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.â€Ivy Lee was another prominent mind manipulator, who in 1. John D. Rockefeller Jr to represent his family and the Standard Oil corporation — “to burnish the family imageâ€Â — following the coal mining rebellion in Colorado known as the “Ludlow Massacre.†Upton Sinclair dubbed Lee “Poison Ivy†after he sent out public bulletins stating that those who died in the massacre were victims of an overturned stove, when in fact they were shot dead by the Colorado National Guard. Propaganda of World War. One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Carl Sagan. In 1. He Kept Us Out of Warâ€, President Woodrow Wilson came out with what they called “Four Minute Menâ€. These were short films presented during the four minutes between reels changing in movie theaters across the United States. These 4 minute presentations influenced the masses into thinking we should go to war with Germany. There were a large number of German Americans living in the States at the time so support for war with Germany was difficult to garner. However George Creel, another influential propagandist who worked with Edward Bernays, devised these short wartime propaganda stunts to garner support for the war, and it worked like a charm. Click image to enlarge. We all know plenty about the atrocities committed by the “bad guys†in WWII (well after 1. I might add). What we aren’t told however, is the horrible torture and deaths of millions of innocent German civilians at the hands of the US alliance. After WWII, when the “Axis of Evil†was defeated, President Eisenhower decided to deliberately starve over a million German men, women and children held in POW camps, puttimg them in a field without shelter, food or water and leaving them to die. That is the cheapest and least humane way to execute a mass killing, and that is exactly what he did. Of course we could never learn about this in our history books since the U. S. were portrayed as the “good guysâ€. Sometimes it isn’t even the information that we’re told that sways our epistemological worldview, it is the information that’s suppressed and kept hidden deep beneath the collective consciousness. It is disturbing how much is left out of the history books. The saying “The victors write the history books†has never rung so true. For further evidence of this fact, please see the recent article:  Celebrating Genocide – Christopher Columbus’ Invasion of America.)Other Losses is a 1.
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