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JohnSmith's avatar

Nearly 100 years ago, Edward Bernays wrote the following:

"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...and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world." -- Edward Bernays, "Propaganda", chapter 1 (1928)

archive.org/details/bernays-edward-l.-propaganda-1928-1936_202107/page/9/mode/2up

It doesn't get much more clear than this. Bernays, the "father of public relations", was an advisor to CBS founder William Paley. Paley was also a long-time member of the CFR, which has "controlled the public mind" with increasing sophistication to "bind and guide the world" ever since.

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

Precisely!

I will add this quote to the latest article i just posted.

Thanks.

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Dave Payette's avatar

Gents, thanks, but Bernays’s work was certainly not lost on me. I don’t see any contradiction here. I think CJ and 2nd have been overzealous, if not in their characterisation of Desmet’s position, then in the significance they ascribe to that particular position, at the expense of all else that the work has to offer. Simple as that. Thanks.

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