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I figured since we were in an election cycle and many people still either don't understand propaganda/group psychology or are in complete denial that the masses are manipulated daily, that this would be the right time for this post. This is all about Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays.
Edward Bernays 1891-1995, he died at age 103.
Sigmund Freud's nephew Edward Bernays pretty much explained how to control masses of people without them knowing they are being controlled, namely you and me. In fact, Freud's psychoanalytic theories were made popular in the west because his little nephew Edward Bernays helped make it happen.
This shit gets weird too because picture this. Freud married Martha Bernays. Martha's brother was named Ely Bernays. Freud's sister was named Anna. So Freud's sister Anna and his wife Martha's brother Ely got married and their son was Edward Bernays.
Bernays wrote a book called Propaganda in 1928 that I will post below, made large enough that you can read the text but think of this. When you hear so called CT's that the public school system is being dumb'ed down or the public school is being used for indoctrination, that's Edward Bernays. When you see politicians that just can't seem to answer a question plainly, that's Bernays. When you see the media spreading bullshit stories or acting as a propaganda arm of the government, that's Bernays. When you see a corporations like big Tobacco argue for decades that cigs don't cause cancer, that's Bernays.
Even currently during the presidential election when you have seen the efforts of media, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, do everything in their power to discredit Donald Trump, that's Bernays. This is an effort to control the masses. If you think not, consider this quote from Bernays' daughter Anne. This is how you know the establishment fears the American people will make the wrong decision and vote for "the wrong man" and need to be controlled. This why they are so pissed off that the American people continue to vote for Trump and their techniques of control are failing during this election cycle.
According to the BBC interview with Bernays' daughter Anne, Bernays believed that the public's democratic judgment was "not to be relied upon" and feared that the American public "could very easily vote for the wrong man or want the wrong thing, so that they had to be guided from above." Anne interpreted "guidance" to mean that her father believed in a sort of "enlightened despotism".[7]
In fact, even when you see George "W" Bush or other presidents give motivational speech's during wartime about "spreading democracy" to the world, that's Bernays. Its a slick manipulation to gain support from the masses and to this day, almost 100 years later, the notion is as strong as ever. If you want sauce on that idea then consider this.
Bernays worked for the Woodrow Wilson administration during WWI and was the head of the "Committee on Public Relations" which spread the idea that America was "spreading democracy to Europe" in order to gain support for the war. Sound familiar? Going to war to "spread freedom and Democracy." We still see this tactic used to this very day and to great effect because average folk have never even heard of Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud.
Even when you hear the term, public relations", that term was coined by Bernays. Want to know why? It happened because Bernays realized that there was a negative reaction to the term propaganda so he changed the word propaganda to public relations and that is another trick of Bernays, the re-coining of words to control what people think. When you see government refer to boots on the ground as not a war but a "kinetic military action", that's Edward Bernays.
What I'm saying is, Edward Bernays taught corporations, the government, and media how to use what is known as "group psychology" to put ideas in your mind without you knowing it and this doesn't go over well because educated folks don't believe they can be manipulated so easily. Over the decades Bernay's tactics have been refined and it is a part of almost every aspect of American life, as well as other countries now, and many people view this stuff as a CT. This is not a CT, this is how shit went down and how it continues to go down.
When you hear "Support the troops!" and "The soldiers are fighting for your freedom!", that's mother F'ing Edward Bernays crowd control that is so effective you can't even bring it up without enraging people. When BP oil has commercials all over the airwaves about their effort to clean up the oil spills and aid the healing of the environment, that's Edward MF'ing Bernays from the grave using public relations to control public opinion.
Here is the cover of one of the publications of Bernay's book, Propaganda. Read some of the cover to try to grasp what you are dealing with on a daily bases, probably without even realizing it. Understand that ideas and movements are usually put in motion by governments, media, corporations, and schools and the people in the movements have no idea the level of manipulation that has been used against them. Used against you.
Lastly, this quote describing Bernay's as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he regarded as irrational and dangerous as a result of the "herd instinct" that Trotter had described.[2] Adam Curtis's award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self, pinpoints Bernays as the originator of modern public relations, and Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life magazine.[3]
Edward Bernays 1891-1995, he died at age 103.
Sigmund Freud's nephew Edward Bernays pretty much explained how to control masses of people without them knowing they are being controlled, namely you and me. In fact, Freud's psychoanalytic theories were made popular in the west because his little nephew Edward Bernays helped make it happen.
This shit gets weird too because picture this. Freud married Martha Bernays. Martha's brother was named Ely Bernays. Freud's sister was named Anna. So Freud's sister Anna and his wife Martha's brother Ely got married and their son was Edward Bernays.
Bernays wrote a book called Propaganda in 1928 that I will post below, made large enough that you can read the text but think of this. When you hear so called CT's that the public school system is being dumb'ed down or the public school is being used for indoctrination, that's Edward Bernays. When you see politicians that just can't seem to answer a question plainly, that's Bernays. When you see the media spreading bullshit stories or acting as a propaganda arm of the government, that's Bernays. When you see a corporations like big Tobacco argue for decades that cigs don't cause cancer, that's Bernays.
Even currently during the presidential election when you have seen the efforts of media, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, do everything in their power to discredit Donald Trump, that's Bernays. This is an effort to control the masses. If you think not, consider this quote from Bernays' daughter Anne. This is how you know the establishment fears the American people will make the wrong decision and vote for "the wrong man" and need to be controlled. This why they are so pissed off that the American people continue to vote for Trump and their techniques of control are failing during this election cycle.
According to the BBC interview with Bernays' daughter Anne, Bernays believed that the public's democratic judgment was "not to be relied upon" and feared that the American public "could very easily vote for the wrong man or want the wrong thing, so that they had to be guided from above." Anne interpreted "guidance" to mean that her father believed in a sort of "enlightened despotism".[7]
In fact, even when you see George "W" Bush or other presidents give motivational speech's during wartime about "spreading democracy" to the world, that's Bernays. Its a slick manipulation to gain support from the masses and to this day, almost 100 years later, the notion is as strong as ever. If you want sauce on that idea then consider this.
Bernays worked for the Woodrow Wilson administration during WWI and was the head of the "Committee on Public Relations" which spread the idea that America was "spreading democracy to Europe" in order to gain support for the war. Sound familiar? Going to war to "spread freedom and Democracy." We still see this tactic used to this very day and to great effect because average folk have never even heard of Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud.
Even when you hear the term, public relations", that term was coined by Bernays. Want to know why? It happened because Bernays realized that there was a negative reaction to the term propaganda so he changed the word propaganda to public relations and that is another trick of Bernays, the re-coining of words to control what people think. When you see government refer to boots on the ground as not a war but a "kinetic military action", that's Edward Bernays.
What I'm saying is, Edward Bernays taught corporations, the government, and media how to use what is known as "group psychology" to put ideas in your mind without you knowing it and this doesn't go over well because educated folks don't believe they can be manipulated so easily. Over the decades Bernay's tactics have been refined and it is a part of almost every aspect of American life, as well as other countries now, and many people view this stuff as a CT. This is not a CT, this is how shit went down and how it continues to go down.
When you hear "Support the troops!" and "The soldiers are fighting for your freedom!", that's mother F'ing Edward Bernays crowd control that is so effective you can't even bring it up without enraging people. When BP oil has commercials all over the airwaves about their effort to clean up the oil spills and aid the healing of the environment, that's Edward MF'ing Bernays from the grave using public relations to control public opinion.
Here is the cover of one of the publications of Bernay's book, Propaganda. Read some of the cover to try to grasp what you are dealing with on a daily bases, probably without even realizing it. Understand that ideas and movements are usually put in motion by governments, media, corporations, and schools and the people in the movements have no idea the level of manipulation that has been used against them. Used against you.
Lastly, this quote describing Bernay's as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he regarded as irrational and dangerous as a result of the "herd instinct" that Trotter had described.[2] Adam Curtis's award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self, pinpoints Bernays as the originator of modern public relations, and Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life magazine.[3]
