“The white man is a great propagandist. He realizes fully and completely the value of propaganda. You must therefore organize our propaganda to undo the propaganda of other people, if their propaganda affects your interest.
The Bible is religious propaganda.
The school book is literary propaganda.
The novels and books you read are also literary propaganda.
All calculated to bring about certain results beneficial to the propagandists. Never forget then that you are surrounded in a world of propaganda all dressed up or cooped up to suit a doubtful public who is not careful with what it digests as coming from without.” Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons, Lesson Sixteen Propaganda page 890.
Following WWI, the ruling classes and their sycophants increased their study and focus on propaganda as a means not only to promote consumerism but also as a means of mass social manipulation. The man whose propaganda techniques make him the most acclaimed man in the field, the father of Pubic Relations and Propaganda, is Edward Bernays (1891-1995).
Bernays was of Jewish heritage, and he was the double nephew of Sigmund Freud. Bernays and his family migrated to the US, and he attended New York public schools and went to college to study agriculture. After graduation, Bernay’s decided to enter the field of writing and journalism.
Bernays came to prominence when he worked for the Creel Committee/aka/The Committee on Public Information. This was a group of graphic artists, writers, journalists and media persons who helped establish and shape an all pervasive multi-media quasi-government propaganda campaign whose goal was to convince and manipulate a reluctant US public to enter the ongoing European War referred to as World War I.
Needless to say the Creel Committee was hugely successful in their endeavors, and many of its members like artist Charles Gibson, writer Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernays, all enjoyed successful careers after the war.
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