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Edward Bernays' "Propaganda" Theory Has Been Perfected
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
When six mega-corporations who depend upon other mega-corporations, Wall Street banks and political parties for their revenue, control all of the news and information flowing to the masses, you have all the ingredients needed to control, influence and mold the opinions, tastes and ideas of the people. We are being manipulated by men who constitute the real government, hiding in the shadows and pulling the strings. Nothing reported by these six mega-corporation media mouthpieces for the oligarchs can be trusted. Their job is to coverup, subvert, and obscure the truth. And best of all, they have succeeded in convincing the people we are free and informed. Edward Bernays would be so proud.
h/t flash
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in 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 are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily 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 which control the public mind.”
Edward Bernays – Propaganda – 1928

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Off-topic:
The corruption scandal in PETROBRAS closed the door to the Brazilian contractors subsidized by Banksters.
This is a tectonic shift in the works of infrastructure in Brazil!
Opens the market for Chinese and Russian!
Another shot that backfired!
link:
http://www.matheusleitao.com.br/5674-petrobras-rompe-com-23-empreiteiras...
Masterstroke in BRICS!
HEHE!
Most predict a huge drop in the shares of companies that manufacture earthmoving machinery ...
hehe.
Ed couldn't have predicted idiots would put all their data out there for sale to his organizations
http://y2u.be/VI6tBwVjyOY
My turn to make my contribution to the many of you who have been so kind to share your thoughts and provide links to various sources. It has been a university for me.
I am sure many might know it already but here is a link to the great BBC documentary Century of Self. If not seen before get a diner a glass of wine and enjoy it ... I love it
http://vimeo.com/85948693
let me know if the BBC has anything on Synthetic Debt.........otherwise I pass
Just so.
This concentration of power is the mother of all conspiracies, and the main source of power,
for TPTB.
That's why the internet scares them, too big and too wild so they want to go full Orwell.
a bunch of newswriters happen to notice the same thing: economic factors may take some "spring" out of the easter bunny's step this year.
nothing remarkable about that.
you just report what you observe.
don't make it out to be a conspiracy or anything.
merely the result of competent professionals reporting the same big-impact story the same way.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf
not bbc but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcGh1Dex4Yo
this seems exactly like propaganda to me:
http://www.philiacband.com/propaganda.html
Yes, Arius, that video (although not that Vimeo source) is on my current collected list of Excellent Videos on Money Systems:
Next watch Adam Curtis' The Power of Nightmares.
As I’ve said before...
“He who Defines and Controls the secular and religious worldviews, controls EVERYTHING”.
You get one group to define and control the Religious world, and the other to define and control the Secular world. Eventually, the theory goes, one or the other will become the dominant global force. When that happens, you use it to conquer the rest, and then impose a World Order. With a new World Religion.
Until quite recently (last 250 years), all attempts via the religious or military globalism have failed. Then some bankers came along, who changed everything: Their model would be used to conquer almost the entire planet, and is hellbent to conquer the rest.
p.s. Have any astute observers noticed that both sets of worldviews (in the West) are DEBT-based? You think this is a coincidence? Think again, little fishes and little sheep.
I agree,
noben:
The two State Religions that dominate most today are the monetary system and national security, as combined money/murder systems, which are based on the maximum possible frauds and deceits.
The monetary system is an apparently faith-based public "money" supply, which is made out of nothing by privately controlled banks, as debts for everyone else, which exists as government enforced frauds. That kind of fiat "money" is not overtly backed by anything, but rather is covertly backed by the force of governments demanding that taxes be paid using that kind of "money," as well as by other legal tender laws, including that the government forces itself to operate inside of that absurd State Religion of MAD Money As Debt.
National security has become almost totally based upon the deceits developed through a series of inside job, false flag attacks. There were a long series of such events, with the two most significant being the War on Drugs, which was primarily the war against marijuana, and the War on Terror. Both were wars based on deceits, as deliberately designed self-fulfilling prophesies, whose ultimate purpose was to drive the development of the underlying debt slavery systems.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many.
--- Smedley Butler
According to that definition, both the monetary system and national security have become rackets. Neolithic civilizations' social pyramid systems were always based on being able to back up lies with violence, which have become more sophisticated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence.
The deeper problems are that the relative success of those systems drives society as a whole to become more psychotically insane, because the violence never makes the lies stop being false, but only continues to enable those enforced frauds to get worse! Furthermore, there could be no genuinely better resolutions of those situations which did not address the deeper reasons how and why society ended up manifesting the fractal patterns of organized crime, through such series of State Religions.
+1, yet... one word sums it up: corruption
"War on Drugs, which was primarily the war against marijuana,"
Why would that be so ?
Are you Santa Cannabis ? ( I followed the link on your profile )
The reason that's so is that the PTB discovered in the 1960's that if an educated population of young people have easy access to it, too many of them start waking up to what's really going on.
Of course if an uneducated population of young people have easy access to it, they just watch cartoons and play video games, so it's a lot less of a threat to the status quo these days.
What you write does not make sense to me. Do you ascribe mind enhancing qualities to marihuana ? Are your posts testimony to that ?
The above author seemed to suggest the authorities especially crack down on marihuana as opposed to other drugs. I wanted to know why he wrote that.
I suspect prohibition is sometimes a ruse to keep prices high and competitors out. Think about it.
"Mind enhancing" might be a bit of a stretch, because it seems to imply enhanced IQ, but there's no doubt it amplifies the intensity of certain experiences.
Music, food, sex, movies - these are common examples of things that people report experiencing with greater intensity after consuming cannabis. The neocortex is a pattern recognition network and my guess is that the active compounds do enhance the abilities of portions of that network, but that doesn't mean that it works on everyone in the same way.
Gangbangers don't suddenly start writing philisophical treatises because they've smoked a lot of blunts (though some of the more clever ones do write some pretty good social commentary and package it up the form of rap music). But it's not uncommon for people who are already educated and empathetic to become even more so when cannabis is added to the mix.
I think the 60's were a tipping point for this effect - we had a young population in this country that was better educated than at any time before (or since), they had aspirations for living in a world that would be substantially different from the one they inherited, in terms of conflict and extreme disparities in wealth distribution, and they had access to weed, which tends to in my opinion, help at least some people see through the illusions of control more easily than they could without it.
I think the elite have plenty of other sources of income (pressing a button on a computer to create debt out of thin air takes a lot less effort than growing and selling a crop), so I think it's more likely that the farcical schedule 1 assignment was motivated much more by their realization that too many people were "waking up" and challenging their authority than any desire to profit from its restriction - though they certainly have done that as well, especially on the enforcement and incarceration side of things.
Think about this for a second - methamphetamine is a schedule 2 drug, while cannabis is schedule 1. The only way that makes sense to me is that the powers that be felt more threatened by a bunch of college students smoking weed and protesting the system than they do by a bunch of redneck tweakers.
Thank you for your answer.
Do not want to sound like a complete bore, but cannot recommend marihuana personally.( I have a friend who is a long time addict and I experienced the damage it does to his life )
Printing money is necessary to exercise power, but not sufficient. You need to be able to provide people with stuff they want in order to give that money value. Also think about fractional reserve banking and the role of cash in illegal transactions and connect the dots. Not that I endorse that.
Happy 2015
I have a friend who avoids it because it gives him headaches. No one thing is a cure-all, and even things that are beneficial and effective for some might be ineffective or even dangerous for others.
I think many if not most people will get something positive from it, especially if they use it as a substitute to reduce or eliminate their usage of alchohol, but I certainly wouldn't give it a blanket endorsement for everyone.
And yes, banks get involved on the money-laundering side of it as well, for sure. But there would be (and are) plenty of ways to profit from it were it legal everywhere, so that is why (along with the history of the 1960's) I lean more towards the threat of civil unrest as being the more likely motivation for the S1 classification and the subsequently announced "war."
Things usually happen for more than one reason, so I'm not saying money didn't play a role - I just think that factor was more of the icing on top of the cake, as far as the decision making process went. It needed to happen for reasons of maintaining the status quo, and any time there's a new regulation invented by the government, there's always at least a few ways to make money from it for those who are connected.
Happy 2015 to you too.
Yes, piratepeit, those were photos of me having fun during a Canadian general election taking place during Christmas time.
The FACTS are that about 75% of the War on Drugs is against marijuana. Many people are initially surprised by that, however, there are no doubts that those are the statistical social facts in North America.
Also, I generally agreed with BadLibertarian's replies to you.
"Have any astute observers noticed that both sets of worldviews (in the West) are DEBT-based?"
debt is the other side of credit, and credit is... natural. human action
debt/credit is like sugar, or corn, or whatever. it's not a problem per se, it's how you handle it. excess of debt is the problem
in ancient times, too much freedom led to slavery. why? because people were allowed to (pawn or) sell their children or even themselves to slavery, often to repay debt
today, in America, young people are allowed to pawn themselves, i.e. their future incomes as collateral for student debt
the result of this excess of unregulated freedom is... debt serfdom
debt contains interest, which used to contain an "insurance" part
you used to lend for 1% more because out of 100, one would default (not real example)
no default possible or allowed... results in the biggest problem about debt
excesses are the problem about debt, not debt per se. the same applies to sugar, corn, and nearly everything. poison is a matter of dosis
excesses are inherent to human nature, excesses in debt simply reflect that. the problem is that those who bear the consequences for those excesses in debt are much more often than not not the ones responsible for the excesses, and those responsible for the excesses are much more often than not rewarded with more excesses.
then there is the problem of who be the judge who decides who must bear the consequences and who is rewarded with more excesses, which brings us back to those lingering issues of corruption and tribal loyalties.
jmo, but compound interest is an enormous problem about debt-based systems that is seldom, if ever discussed. this interest on interest (much more often than not, frontloaded and attached to principal) is not only in its nature perverse (as you noted, "interest" was originally considered to be default insurance),
but creates all sorts of perverse incentives in people's intentions, simply for access to capital (since equity capital is effectively nonexistent except for those who already have gobs of capital and/or are willing to have an army of leeches (aka attorneys) to see them through the regulatory swamp).
all for this quest for endless "Growth", which is simply a codeword from a bunch of hungry ghosts starving for yield on something that doesn't really exist at all, except in their minds and the minds of those that they manipulate (see above topic).
besides, whose credit is it anyhow in the first place? the search for that answer may lead us down rabbit holes that will cause chindit to show up and admonish the tylers once again for catering to lunatics and conspiracy nutters.
until the monopoly on money creation & allocation is broken and individuals are given the "freedom" to access capital without having to go through a nest of rent-seeking parasites to do it (including and especially having to individually bear the consequences for their own excesses), the System will remain FUBAR.
OK, for the newcomers: Democracy is bad. Really, really bad. Democracy is the opposite of what the Founding Fathers wanted.....
FAKE "democracy" IS "really, really bad."
However, using the general word democracy, as if what exists now is a "democracy," when it is actually a FAKE democracy, is WRONG. In a real democracy, the people would control the public money supply. The original American constitution was supposed to have a public money supply backed by gold and silver, whose value was set by Congress, where that Congress operated in a democratic republic, as the People's representatives, not the banksters' puppets.
What exists NOW is an almost totally privatized public "money" supply. Therefore, what actually exist NOW is pretty well totally the OPPOSITE to what the Founding Fathers wanted ... However, one should only blame that upon a FAKE democracy, whereby the methods of organized crime were applied to the political processes, in order to capture control over the powers of governments, so that those powers were effectively privatized.
One should not blame "democracy" itself for the existence of a FAKE democracy. In order for that to become successful, the public school systems and mass media had to be controlled, so that the vast majority of citizens would be reduced to becoming incompetent political idiots. A principle of a real democracy is that everyone must be educated as much as possible, so that they could be good citizens. The central principle of a FAKE democracy is a FAKE education, whereby the majority of people are brainwashed to believe in bullshit.
Propaganda theory has been perfected in order to maintain the FAKE democracy which was originally made by applying the methods of organized crime, primarily through the funding of all aspects of the political processes, such as through bribery and intimidation, as well as assassinations of those who could not otherwise be bribed or intimidated. The American constitution was systematically destroyed in the ways outlined in this recent article Things To Do In 2015 When You’re Not Yet Dead.
The methods of organized crime, as successfully applied to the political processes, in order to capture control over the monetary system, and then leverage that up and UP, to capture control over all other social institutions, such as the schools and mass media, were revealed by many good historians, such as Carroll Quigley, who wrote:
"powers of financial capitalism
had another far-reaching goal,
nothing less than to create a
world system of financial
control in private hands
able to dominate the
political system of
each country and
the economy of
the world as
a whole ..."
It is a cruel joke to say that America is a "free and democratic" country, AFTER the banksters have already taken control over the public money supply. Whatever America maybe should have been, as a democratic republic operating through the rule of law, has been dead for more than a Century. That the majority of people are only beginning to wonder about that, as it becomes blatantly worse at an exponentially accelerating rate, demonstrates how awesomely successful the best scientific brainwashing that money could buy has been in persuading them to want to believe in absurd bullshit.
"Every socialist has his own utopia."
That includes you junior.
NidStyles, you seem to specialize in making non sequitur ad hominem replies, which are empty of any relevant content to the point of being vacuous stupidity.
I am NOT a "socialist" and I do NOT believe in "utopia." I believe that the supreme ideology is militarism, because the most important thing that people do is kill each other. The real roles of propaganda were developed in that context, because, as the oldest book on the Art of War begins and ends: "success in war depends upon deceits," and "spies are the most important soldiers."
Edward Bernays was doing fundamentally the same things, only in slightly more insightful and scientific ways. His two most significant early "achievements," in my view, were getting more women to smoke tobacco, and providing the public relations framework for the destruction of Latin American governments, by being able to falsely accuse them of being Communists.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep discussing what's for dinner. In a democracy, the majority rules.
The Founding Fathers wanted a republic, you sir are correct.
But you already knew that.
Fake democracies (which are the only kind that actually exist now) are wolves in sheep's clothing fooling much larger groups of sheep.
Real human ecology can be metaporically described as a small group of vicious wolves, using a group of domesticated dogs, in order to herd a much large group of zombie sheeple, which situation is protested by a small group of black sheeple.
In fake democracies, the majority do not rule, a tiny minority, which is the best at being dishonest and violent, rules, by keeping the large majority ignorant and afraid, so that that larger group can be controlled and exploited by a much smaller group.
The famous saying:
"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep discussing what's for dinner."
is quite ridiculous.
RM, the one thing I would add to your metaphor is that the zombie sheeple are, for the most part, just as brutal as the wolves - they just aren't as smart. With the right propaganda, it's easy to get them to work as guards in the concentration camps, or the killing fields, or even just press the button in the Milgram pain experiment.
They want to be told what to do, and they want to be able to express their own sociopathic tendencies in officially approved ways that allow them to believe they are still "good" people. So the elite divide them and then exploit those divisions as sanctioned outlets for the brutality of the masses. War being one extreme example of this, and competitive but meaningless sports like football and politics being other safe and approved outlets for their vitriol.
Evolution produced intelligence late. It produced brutality early and often. The individuals who bubbled up into the leadership caste starting with our early history and still today were the ones who had more of this new intelligence thing and figured out that you could control more people with an idea than you could with just the direct an immediate threat of a sword.
Swords don't scale like memes do.
Figuring out how to domesticate the "Roman mob" with the right combination of propaganda and physical threat has been a very long project, and where that effort has been successful, wealth and prosperity have followed - though not for everyone.
The question I still struggle with is this - are the elite wrong?
I hate to even pose that question, but when you look at what the mob does when it does take control - the French revolution being one example, and narco Mexico being another, you can make a pretty good case that at least for most of history, brutal as their behavior has been, we are better off today under the slow and painful progress of the leadership we have had - at least in the West, than we would have been being ruled by a never-ending chain of Robespierres, Bonapartes, and el Chapos.
Which isn't to say that we can't do better in the future. There are more "black sheeple" now, probably than there have ever been before. But they are also pretty easy to get rid of - with the right instructions, the zombie sheeple are always more than happy to eat them.
I do not like it that I have to agree with you BadLibertarian, however, there is no doubt that you are correct!
I don't like that conclusion either. It's nicer to think that if enough people would just wake up we could fix things. But I have a hard time finding historical evidence to support that belief.
I'll say this though. I think the "point" of evolution, just like the point of our efforts to build AI, is to produce something that is finally smart enough to re-write its legacy programming. If evolution is a "game," then that's how you win - by understanding what's going on and then being clever enough to figure out how to make things go a different way.
Humans are clearly the species that, thus far, has the best chance at getting over that obstacle and "winning the game," but in the end, we may just not be quite up to the task.
I'm not giving up though. I'm stubborn like that.
Again, amen,
BadLibertarian
....the Briiics are stack'en and pack'en
That "intelligent manipulation" is part of a democracy is in itself a remarkable piece of propaganda.
Such manipulation-especially when done impudently-is ALWAYS the hallmark of a tyranny.
my roomate's half-sister makes $65 /hr on the computer . She has been without work for 7 months but last month her pay check was $14940 just working on the computer for a few hours. you could try this out... www.works3.com
Look up Adam Curtis
he had a great blog post recently and is coming out with a new documentary in 2015:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/HAPPIDROME-Part-One
.
"Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."
So who would that be, Jim?
That would be those who won't leave you alone.
Off Topic: Exclusive Planet Of the Apes IV footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJ_M3AlrdA
Seemed pretty on topic to me...
This is why I carry a pistol at all times and live in the sticks. Oh, and near water. That way if I run out of bullets I can always jump in the lake. White men can't jump but we can swim.
On topic:
Will Ling • 34 minutes ago
Really? before HIS time :
http://hypster.com/playlists/s...
Edward Bernays ..... a distinguished capo in the Fabian Socialist movement. Excellent choice.
And a Master Chef of the Slow-Boiled Frog technique.
That is NOT funny!
Politics is the wanting of what someone else has and abusing the fear of the masses to obtain it.
Bullish......MOAR consolidation
you want your propaganda - you get your propaganda
Well, on the bright side: we still have the alternative media, blogs and communication platforms where these practices are brought to light. Of course, once TPTB decide to hit on the internet, we'll all be shuffling in the dark.
Keep a sound mind and strong convictions when that happens, my friends.
erm, everything you've listed has already been compromized by multiple actors, both state-level entities and corporate/political spies and disruption agents of all types.
So? What's your point? No hope left then? We capitulate because everything's infected anyway?
Sure, I guess one could look at things your way, stating that what little sanity is left is being compromised, i.e. under attack of "state-level entities and corporate/political spies and dispruption agents of all types" (your words).
But one could just as well argue that the status quo is being compromised by sites like this one and under attack by the likes of us, people who tend to not take everything their overlords are feeding them for granted. You should turn this around: why can't we be the thorn in their side?
This site has been compromised for about a year and a half now. More than half the articles being posted are propaganda now. So no dice junior.
That still beats the MSM, where just about any article is compromised one way or another. And you are still around here too, aren't you, old man?
You lie.
Now what?
When do the soylent trucks arrive?
Soylent trucks have been around since 2009.
Look for the 'scoops' to arrive soon.
The unprecedented propaganda of destruction launched by the global financial mafia mechanisms inside Greece and abroad, during the short period until the elections in 25 January, manages to persuade a critical mass of the indecisive electorate to vote for "stability".
And don't forget this is just covering the overt media manipulation outlets.
There's a whole 'nother set of astroturfing companies and government agencies using sockpuppet accounts to actively manipulate things covertly, through discussion forums like this one.
This isn't paranoia, but rather established fact.
6 corporations soon to be 5 isn't (GE) comcast still trying to "aquire" time warner ?
that is disturbingly hilarious.
.
they should all be ashamed for going
public in a field other than stand up comedy.
.
David Letterman Working The Drive-Thru At McDonald's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWDihvcUWUQ
In western society it begins with early childhood training to believe in impossibilities, beginning with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy. It continues, with cartoon fantasies such as Disney's Snow White, and Cinderella, and I dare say, in some early religious indoctrination. Idealized and internalized characters from Sesame Street contribute to the infantilization and inability to think logically - which is topped off with a dumbed-down educational system. Resulting in a mass of society that would fight any effort made on their behalf.
funny they would use easter as an example of the influence of the zionutz run msm.
This should be mandatory viewing for anyone who watches more than an hour of tv a week.
The Century of Self - BBC documentary about the use of Freud's theories in the use of propaganda to control the masses. Excellent! Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, and his "public relations" were instrumental in shaping the consumer mindset of the 20th century.
http://vimeo.com/85948693
The media masters.
https://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/six-jewish-companies-co...
http://davidduke.com/jewish-tribalism-manipulates-bbc/
This is why Sweden is becoming a multicultural hell.
Jewish Media Influence in Scandinavia
Sweden: The Bonnier Family - Peter Hjörne - Helle Klein - Robert Aschberg
http://www.mosaisk.com/Torben-Lund/Bonnier-Hjorne-Klein-Jewish-Media-Sca...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9VlX-2nuhQ
More that 99% of the applications of the science of psychology have been designed to take advantage of people's weaknesses, rather than assist them to overcome those weaknesses. Therefore, more than 99% of the applications of the science of psychology have been to make people become more insane, rather than saner.
The ruling classes have always waged war against the consciousness of those they ruled over. The development of better scientific methods have primarily been applied within that war against consciousness, which was the context in which "Edward Bernays' "Propaganda" Theory Has Been Perfected."
You really believe that type of Old School Propaganda still works in the 21th century? Come on. You gotta be kidding me. We've got that internet. Sure, some tubes out there monitor every shit you put on a blog. Like this sentence. But we've all sorts of websites - all around the world. You can read a criticial, opinionated blog like ZH or go wild on Planet Alex Jones - it's not like your being in China and seeing everything through a filter. If you can control that - wonder why all these outlets are still online or not being stomped out.
And when a guy, who is writing for a blog (not Tyler(s) who is called Economic Disaster or anything like that - clearly it's not hard to decipher that this guy is preaching about an incoming collapse for six fucking years - other people graduated in that time or moved on to a new job. Yeah, eventually you're right. I mean - if you took that serious and went out into hiding - in a secret bunker with vintage porn magazines, whiskey and some good books - you would've missed out on a lot of opportunities.´I mean - yeah, it will crash. It always does every 6-7 years. That's nothing new. It's a cycle. Been there since the late 19th century and even earlier. And next time - shit is probably flying high. But the mentality of some readers is clearly disturbing to me. I am European - so I don't get this liberal/democrat/republican clusterfuck you've running over there as a political show (not being arrogant; shit over here is also absurd in many ways). But against jews? Or to think that Jews controll this? Or "monkeys"? Come on. You can't be really that backwards in your mind. That's like 19th century stupidity.
And actually - if you are European, you probably speak more than one language - unlike many Americans. So what? Just look at the other media. I watch French television from time to time - or read Italian or German magazines. You can even watch Chinese television these days or Russia Today - if you want to get a different viewpoint on things. Nah, I am not buying this. Maybe the old folks - who are not used to the internet - they read their old wrinkled local newspaper or always watch their state television program.
RT, French TV and Italian mags! What, no Greek Financials?
Great post - that was pretty funny (even though I think you're being honest).
Cheers!
Lots of interesting things in your comment. Liked it. Only thing: I disagree on your downplaying the coming crash as just "the next in the cycle". Personally, I think this one might be very different from the previous ones, given the insane policies of the past decades and in particular of these past six years. Take Japan for instance: they really seem to be going for national seppuku.
Something's thoroughly broken this time, to an extent and on a scale nobody has ever witnessed before. In that sense I believe this time it will indeed be different.
steak tastes like chicken right now , you took the red pill and know you dont like what you hear
the next crash is going to be very bloody (huge impact on the world, it could lead to WW3 even after the crash)
keep on digging and research, forget politics . follow the money
follow the money,
to its SOURCE!
you are right to an extent. in fact, none other than henry kissinger famously remarked that the internet made things more difficult for the ruling class to get what they want.
however, the ruling class doesn't need the intellectuals or the informed. there are too few(in the usa) to be concerned about. the bottom half of the class rule the world. the dumb, ignorant and stupid hold the fate of the world(and you) in their hands. they are the largest group in any population. they are easily swayed and almost by definition, followers looking for a leader. .gov is their hero.
Yeah, besnook, in the real political situations, elections are won by appealing to those people who tend to want know the least about politics! We are already way past the event horizon of a social black hole, being sucked into being controlled by the combined systems of backing up dishonesty with violence, in order to keep people ignorant and afraid.
For the most part, keeping people ignorant and afraid is enough to control them, which entrenched sets of social habits only takes the occasional applications of backing lies with violence. The most important form of that is the relatively rare assassinations of politicians who can not otherwise be bribed or intimidated. The effects of those relatively rare assassinations are amplified the most throughout their ramifications through the political systems.
THE FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD. The effects of backing up lies with violence cascade down through social slavery systems. There have often been articles on Zero Hedge comparing the techniques described by Orwell compared to those described by Huxley. Both work together. The best and brightest politicians, who MIGHT have become champions, ended up being assassinated instead. The real effective powers were hidden behind their layers of organized crime. The success of the history of warfare, in which deceits were backed by destruction, and the treacheries of spies were more important than soldiers, also applied to the ways that the ruling classes controlled those who they ruled over.
The war against consciousness is basically the same as the more overt war between different groups of people, in that backing up lies with violence was what worked, and having worked for generation after generation, that selected for the majority of people to end up adapting to living like slaves, with their minds enslaved more effectively than their bodies, because generations of the strategies for survival adopted by slaves internalized the absurdities of lies, to become the bullshit that those who were enslaved wanted to believe in.
America is basically as slave society, although its debt slavery systems are bigger and more sophisticated and totally encompassing than most Americans are able to perceive. Social success comes from agreeing with lies, while those who do not agree to accept and operate within the established systems of enforced frauds tend to not be successful. The majority of Americans could be described as living as if they had the so-called Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.
When it comes to the political economy, practically everyone operates as a sort of "Uncle Tom" within those debt slavery systems. The enforced frauds have become totally metastasized cancer, or a parasite that has spread totally throughout its host. The whole society is dying from that kind of cancer or parasite. However, since it has become almost totally triumphant systems of enforced frauds that controls the political economy, pretty well everything that people want or need is controlled by those enforced frauds.
Therefore, those who take the most advantage of being nearer the source of the "money" made out of nothing as debts accumulate the most wealth within that system, while that system as a whole continues to be like a cancer or a parasite which is killing that society as a whole. However, the majority of people have been conditioned to not want to understand that, which has become a sufficiently vicious spiral that there are no practical political solutions.
The ruling classes can count on being able to continue to fool enough of the people enough of the time. There are no good grounds to believe that will change, because, overall, people are getting stupider. Sure, more and more and "waking up" given that the Internet now makes learning about that IF one want to, quite possible. However, overall, more objectively speaking, I believe that more people are being sucked into becoming stupider, and wanting to continue to be stupid, rather than relatively waking up to a better understanding of the social facts.
There is a conflict between these two sayings:
"Ignorance is bliss."
and
"Ignorance is the source of suffering."
Both those sayinigs are true at the same time, and it is especially true that deliberate ignorance is the source of the greatest suffering. I WISH that I could believe that, overall, there was some reasonable hope of enough people waking up enough for that to be able to make a difference. However, so far, everything I have learned indicates to me that at least 99% of the people are acting like incompetent political idiots, and so, that is actually, overall, getting worse rather than better ... Some have a biased sample, which makes them believe that more people are waking up to the social facts, which is surely relatively true, especially since the Internet makes that more possible. However, overall, I believe that the opposite is happening more. THE FISH CONTINUES TO ROT FROM THE HEAD TO THE TAIL.
The abilities of the ruling classes to back up lies with violence, and enforce frauds, are getting bigger and BIGGER, while overall that is a black hole, whose event horizon we have already passed. I no longer believe that there are enough people waking up enough to prevent that from continuing to overall get automatically worse, faster, for the foreseeable future.
Sure, people who want to can easily become more educated, BUT, there are not enough people who want to, while their are plenty more who are mental slaves, who want to continue to be Uncle Toms, suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids. The ruling classes are always able to switch gears from lying to backing up lies with violence, or with credible threats of violence. Those strategies have been entrenched in the established systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence.
For most people, they believe in lies, especially since there continues to be the violence and/or credible threats of violence which is able to back up those lies. There are very few champions who successfully campaign against that, particularly because any exceptional individuals who were relatively successful doing that would likely end up being finally assassinated. Given those realities, the majority of people are stuck in the ruts of becoming stupider, due to them being more socially successful by agreeing with huge lies, no matter how absurd those lies are to anyone who thinks critically, since those lies continue to be able to be enforced with violence. Therefore, Americans are living inside of a society based on enforced frauds, wherein the majority of people adapted by accepting and adopting those lies as if those were the truth, despite that absurdity producing the stench of their own mental faculties rotting, since the social fish is rotting from the head to its tail.
You wrote: "There have often been articles on Zero Hedge comparing the techniques described by Orwell compared to those described by Huxley."
I'd like to chime in here, for a moment, just to let the interested audience know that there's a book about exactly this theme:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death
Yes, bearwagon,
A GREAT BOOK!
. henry kissinger famously remarked that the internet made things more difficult for the ruling class to get what they want.
Was it Kissinger or are you thinking of John Kerry that made that comment?
Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Embassy Brasilia Brasilia, Brazil August 13, 2013
http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2013/08/213088.htm
Incidently, Zbig made almost exactly the same comment:
Zbigniew Brzezinski Still Admits The Global Political Awakening Proving Very Difficult For The Elitehttp://youtu.be/bHknL5z8f6k
Saker, for being boring, speaks something funny from time to time!
hehe.
Propaganda has been refgined since then. I have not really dig the topic but I think that the results of real world experiments are now known from Ussr and surrounding countries, in comunist China and in others countries.
You can add to that illegal experimentations on lesser numbers of people.
Internet is for a most people nothing but an echo chamber for theirs ego, confirmation bias and/or anything entertainment.
I don't se how it escapes the rules and rule of those that would want to control it. quite the contrary it turned into a great tool, I mean have you forgot already about so called "social" media manipulations? The software developed to pilots many accounts across the web? I forgot the mass scale spying on people?
As for the French television and I suspect any main media from a country of Nato yuou can bet an harm on the fact that they are always ;lying one way or another.
There are a lot more things in the real new paper than on most others media, just read further than the headlines, if it were the basis level of informed you could expect from an average being we would not have all thosee trouble.
1 I think you are "from" the other side.
2 you pretend you have no idea about how real people are... for lots of real people reading reading anything longer than a couple of lines is a core. Actually I suspect most people DO NOT READ.
3 truth people "stuck" on the web well informed or not are the least likely to take any type of action at a social (real) level. Number, a sane number (/ not mass) is require to get any type of traction within an organized society. There is nothing social about the web, it can be a great tool but it turned out mostly as a "mirroir aux alouettes".
In a world, where a People have a Normal (Gaussian) distribution of Abilities and Ambitions, you'd expect the Results (when measured in monetary wealth) to be FAR less skewed than they are. In fact, you'd expect FAR less extreme hunger and extreme poverty. You'd also expect either fewer wars or of shorter duration.
The extent to which this is not the case, is the extent to which the Rules of Economics and Wealth are being manipulated in favor of a small group. Which makes perfect sense: Given that even (or especially) affluent and ambitious people communicate, cooperate, collaborate (make deals and form alliances), they are COLLUDING. They need not "conspire", although the moral and legal line is very thin between the two.
The extent to which they can then have the Rules changed in their favor (an attempt at a Level Playing Field is ended, and an uneven field is created), the wealth distribution becomes even more skewed. This seems to be exactly what we are seeing: Wealth leads to power and power leads to changes of rules that lead to greater concentration of wealth and power.
Without a Natural Predator for these super-oligarchs (Governments breaking up the TPTF and TPTJ), the trend is anything but good.
p.s.
It is most impressive is how a small group (2%) have managed to climb to the very top of the socio-economic pyramid. But what's truly astounding, is that the remaining 98% spends very little time and energy thinking about how this happened, or how they and their kind could have been part of that ruling "2%". Perhaps these questions are directed at the wrong audience, if I am to understand/believe that ZHers are not interested in climbing up that Pyramid, but prefer being "left alone".
I am a natural predator of the 1% and I have monitored them most of my life in hopes of transfering their wealth into my bank account ASAP.
Suffice to say that I am moving closer to my objective each passing day and we are now down to the last few months of their overarching oppression. I figure by March 10th 2015 de Rothschild Bank will be all mine along with every other bank in the entire pyramid. The Whore of Babylon has already pulled her palace guards off the street and put them behind the palace gates for protection. The 1% are leaving America en masse as we speak and the entire lot of them are living as prisoners in abject fear. Instead of the 'street running around with their hair on fire' I honestly believe that the 1% are the ones with the burning hairdoos and paranoid ideation.
NOTE to the 1%:
"I'm here to kill you 'Little Bill' for what you done to Ned."
_UNFORGIVEN_
Little Bill Daggett: You just shot an unarmed man.
Bill Munny: He should have armed himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.
fuck the jews http://12160.info/video/fuck-the-jews-doug-stanhope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny5Arx2OUpo
Kiss them first. Isn't Barbara Specter sexy?
Eddie Bernays neglects to remember what his brother in-law said about
Psychoanalytic Theory, free association, and "where id was ego shall be". In brief, when one makes conscious that which was previously unconscious the unconscious fails to have the same affect and is no
longer a controlling force. This is the concept of Psychoanalytic Theory
that Freud wanted promulgated throughout the World. Bernays, on the other hand, wanted to keep people in the dark about their unconscious motivations because he depended on his ability to manipulate the masses through advertising. Freud himself would have objected to unethical manipulation IMO.
I sleep better.
Every time I start to speak a truth Tyler puts a lot of posts above.
Most of the "Daily Mail".
Talking serious thing bothers.
hehe.
The people who PRINT the Reserve Currency dictate what the lies that the MSM spew and they run the world.
Crystallizing Public Opinion and Propaganda by Edward Bernays are in my library. They are a great read and apply as much today (if not more) as they did when they were written.
Shallow article. Look into it deeper, sleeper. The truth will change your world.
Could you be more ambiguous, please?
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.”
What most people missing, while thinking about what propaganda is, is that it’s not only about shaping our opinions in a way to legitimate otherwise brutal and arbitrary rule by elites, as rational and beneficial to us, but more importantly they want us to act either to further their narrow interests or to act against our own vital interests of unity and solidarity.
In order to convince us they need to affect our intellect but in order to induce us to act they need to affect our emotions. The “act” part of propaganda is responsible for most of the damage we are brainwashed to do to ourselves, our families, local communities and economies.
It is price propaganda that moves us to buy or sell their junk. It is financial propaganda that moves us to invest or borrow their fake money or financial instruments. It is economic propaganda that moves us to save, spend or work hard for their fake money. It is political propaganda which moves us to vote, support, protest, fight or die in their wars. It is religious propaganda that moves us to grand or deny charity to fellow human being or kill their enemies not ours. It is technological propaganda that moves us to gadget enslavement and self deprecating acts of new brave world, while their opulence rise.
It’s medical propaganda that moves us to submit to barbaric practices, designed to inflict maximum of anguish for maximum profit before mercifully inflicting death upon financially broke client, while they’re championing natural healing and human dignity for their own. It’s social propaganda that moves us to live in artificial, separate ways, dividing us within family and promoting newspeak driven fake relationships, while they cultivate extreme class culture, promoting equality, brotherhood and solidarity among themselves.
So why they extensively use propaganda against us nowadays?
The elites rarely used it (except for religion) against masses at large in past millennia opting for brut force instead.
They are at least three reasons for that.
1.Technological advances (press, radio, atv/cat/sat, internet) in spreading propaganda to more and more literate, educated and therefore vulnerable to propaganda populace of world.
2. Efficiency. It much cheaper and effective to manipulate people to elites’ ends via propaganda than force submission via use of violence. In some cases application of pure violence is already impossible and must be combined with propaganda.
3.Dissolving concentrated power of ruling elites into a fog of propaganda and fake social institutions, prohibiting precise identification of decision makers responsible for current state of affairs, enabling division or conflict among people on who is responsible and for what. All leading to wakening of the opposition to the rule.
We should reject every source of propaganda and never come back to it. Purposefully resist acting upon propaganda driven news of any kind. Reject all propaganda frames impaled into our minds relating to patriotic, citizen duties, economic necessities, recognized authorities, obligation to state etc. Reject fear or concern to offend with our words. We should be extremely skeptical towards so called "common knowledge". We should learn what we can and admit our ignorance about the rest. Demand rational, intelligible proofs or our own moral justifications of all facts and statements. We should believe nothing and verify everything we can. We should not confuse believe with knowledge.
Without liberating ourselves from mass propaganda we will never have a chance to be free.
Everything is AWESOME.
All I know is thank god Hollywood and the news media reflect this country's ethnic, religious and cultural diversity.
Now - go back to sleep....
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31835.htm
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/19/opinion/oe-stein19
It's of little use to talk about propaganda without talking about ownership and control of the means of propagandizing. That it is in "corporate" hands is uncontroversial. That it is in Jewish [Not "Zionist" - Jewish] hands, 2.5%of the population, and has been for decades [indicating deliberate efforts to maintain this] would also seem to be relevant - but "anti-Semitism" has been employed not merely to decry actual group hate and libel, but to conflate "hate" and the sacred, eternal victim mythos with any attempt to examine wildly disproportionate Jewish power.
As to Israel, our understanding of Islam, of history, as to once and future wars - it is exceedingly relevant. In all the debate and polemics about Israel etc. - few people leave room for the concept of neither loving nor hating, but for regarding as a small foreign state which does not deserve American blood and treasure, especially as it plainly continues a colonialist, racialist scheme of slow-burn ethnic cleansing based on a bizarre quasi-nationalism, and Jewish Supremacist myths.
p.s. - Who can make head or tail of this, and, do you think a Christian writer could write about a film being a "response" to Judaism, or the Chosen Race mythos, etc? Asking for basic fairness and the elimination of double standards should not be controversial.
More accurately are'nt more of most companies either Zionist or Jewish owned?
http://theunjustmedia.com/Media/Six%20Jewish%20Companies%20Control%2096%...
Except everyone who is worth brainwashing already knows this and doesn't believe a thing they say. The rest just act out on emotions. They will never be useful builders of society since you can't fuck or burn a society into success.
DreddBlog has been talking about Bernays for quite some time:
http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2011/04/ways-of-bernays.html
http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2011/01/momcoms-dad-father-of-spin.html