theburningplatform | 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”
Edward Bernays (1891 – 1995) was a famous pioneer in the field of public relations and is, today, often referred to as the Father of Propaganda.
Perhaps Bernays became thus known because he authored the above quoted
1928 book titled with that very term. He was actually the nephew of the
famed psychopathologist Sigmund Freud and was very proud of his uncle’s
work. More than that, however, Bernays accepted the basic premises of
Freud towards the use of emotional manipulation of the masses through
advertising. It was, in fact, Bernays, who changed the term propaganda
into “public relations”.
If the excerpt above from Bernays’ book “Propaganda” is true, then it
would imply there are men of great power who utilize psychology in
order to message and manipulate the minds of the masses. Are these the
men that Thomas Jefferson, supposedly, once warned about?
Indeed. They are the ones who control the issue of currency; the ones
who first by inflation, then by deflation, caused the banks and
corporations to grow up around the people thus depriving them of all
property until the people’s children woke up homeless on the continent
their fathers conquered.
These are the men who financially and politically manage sovereign governments as well as the handful of corporations
that control 90% of the media today. It is not hard to imagine,
therefore, why it would be in the best interests of these men to
mentally maneuver the masses into complacency. But how is this
psychological manipulation implemented?
Through lies, of course.
Adolf Hitler’s Reich Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, once asserted that:
A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.
In like manner, I now question if this sentence could be modified as follows:
A lie told to a few people is still a lie but a lie told to thousands, even millions, of people becomes the truth.
Yet, it is those who question the lies today that are labeled the conspiracy theorists. What irony.
Carroll Quigley in his book “Tragedy and Hope: The History of the World in Our Time” exposed the takeover of the world’s financial system by these few, powerful men when he wrote on page 51:
In time the (the “Order”) brought into their financial network the provincial banking centers, organized as commercial banks and savings banks, as well as insurance companies, to form all of these into a single financial system on an international scale which manipulated the quantity and flow of money so that they were able to influence, if not control, governments on one side and industries on the other.
It appears control is the result of money equaling power
as both give rise to an alternative reality which, paradoxically, is
subsidized by the vanquished; by those who want to believe. Yes, it is
the masses of people who finance their own dreams via various monthly
installment plans while their own eyes rely upon what they see on any
number of electronic screens before them. The people pay their taxes,
they borrow, they consume, they believe.
