If we truly want to comprehend modern propaganda and how it impacts our views of reality, we have to go back to Edward Bernays and learn how he melded mass psychology and psychiatry with traditional advertising to create a nefarious blend of cognitive manipulation, behavior modification and social reengineering that our current overlords are utilizing on a global scale.
Bernays had this to say about mass psychology and social manipulation, “The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.
Trotter and Le Bon, who approached the subject in a scientific manner, and Graham Wallas, Walter Lippmann and others who continued with searching studies of the group mind, established that the group has mental characteristics distinct from those of the individual and is motivated by impulses and emotions which cannot be explained on the basis of what we know of individual psychology.
So the question naturally arose: If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it.” Propaganda by Edward Bernays page 47 (underlined emphasis mine)
From Bernays perspective, a select few, whom he referred to as “the invisible government,” had the right to manipulate, “control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it.” The ruling elite took Bernays’ ideas and began implementing them immediately. The Nazis as well as other Western governments, successfully employed Bernays techniques throughout the early to late 20th century, and now with more advanced technology, manipulators are able to implement them with dazzling success. Keep in mind, for Bernays and his ilk, the key is to manipulate and regiment us without us knowing. This is going on and is exactly what is being done to us!
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