youtube.com — The propaganda system of the first World War and the Creel commission that he was part of showed, he says, it is possible to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments their bodies." These new techniques of regimentation of minds, he said.
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notqueSep 28, 2007Submitter
Excellent, appreciate it.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrSep 29, 2007
Here's a pdf of Bernay's seminal work 'Propaganda' <a class="user" href="http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/030332.bernays.propaganda.pdf">http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/0303 ...</a> Goebbels used it as a primary reference.
isifunded911Sep 29, 2007
Thank you for that link! The pdf of Bernay's propaganda is on emule.
phnx0221Sep 29, 2007
That is fantastic! I haven't yet looked at it in great detail, as I just tabbed it. But I had to come back here and tell you thank you for posting that!
blackjack75Sep 30, 2007
We've all convienently forgotten that during the dark years of the german occupation in Europe all opponents, who we proudly call now resistants, were labeled as either terrorists or communo-terrorists.
kd1sSep 30, 2007
Corporations have long owned the political sphere in the United States. Had they not how would they be able to use the might of the United States against a sovereign? They couldn't if politicians were beholden to the people and not the lobbyists who represent large corporations. What does a lobbyist do? Wine, dine, entertain, fly congressmen to golf junkets, etc. In essence, grease the wheels while putting across the message of who paid for the junket, dinner, etc. And lobbyists make a good living too. The corporations have to buy their silence otherwise you'd have lobbyists coming out and saying what was actually going on and you really can't have that. Journalist are also paid off to quash or delay stories. And while we're on the subject, we should be re-writing the rules for political action committees or PAC's. They're nothing but big money buckets that corporations can use to elect friendly candidates and it never hurts them to remind a candidate about where the money for their election to office came from.
aerogantOct 1, 2007
I didn't say they were, but they certainly had a better perspective having come from being under control of a monarchy, and having intellects that had studied ancient governments like those of Greece and Rome for example. Pure democracies fall apart because it reduces specialization, not every one knows about everything but they are given equal authority as if they did. Think about it, would you rather democracy steer a ship or would you rather have a competent captain with years of experience of sailing ships? The constitution is the only thing that prevents our government from falling apart like many true democracies in the past.