Masters of Propaganda, why you don’t form your own opinions. “Make the world safe for democracy”

In this short video, you’ll see how the term “make the world safe for #democracy “ came about and why it’s still used today for the same manipulations of the people opinions.

We’ll also see how women were manipulated into smoking and how the phrase “public relations” replaced propaganda. I will include some quotes by the man who created the instruments used for the manufacturing of our consent and social engineering himself, Mr. Edward Bernays. (nephew of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud)

-Manufacturing of consent
-Social engineering
-Perception management
Propaganda (1928)
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Unless otherwise noted, page numbers refer to the 2004 Ig Publishing edition, ISBN 0970312598(The text begins on p. 35, after an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller.)
* 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.
* p. 37
* In almost every act of our 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 that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.
* p. 37–38
* This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas.
* "Manipulating Public Opinion", American Journal of Sociology 33(May, 1928), p. 958–971
* The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.
* "The Engineering of Consent", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science No. 250 (March 1947), p. 113; Reprinted in Edward L. Bernays, Howard Walden Cutler, The Engineering of Consent, University of Oklahoma Press, 1955
* Goebbels [...] was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me.
* Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel (1965)
* It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.
* Quoted in L. Tye The Father of Spin(1998) p. 102
* For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.
* Quoted in L. Tye The Father of Spin(1998) p. 102
* On why he read Playboy
* The best place to find things: the public library.
* Quoted in L. Tye The Father of Spin(1998) p. 102
* The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.
* Quoted in L. Tye The Father of Spin(1998) p. 102
* When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words "public relations".
* Edward Bernays Quoted in Adam Curtis' The Century of the Self (200
* “Whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or ethical thinking, we are dominated by the small number of persons who understand the mental processes & social patterns of the masses.”- Edward Bernays.
* “They pull the wires which control the public mind, harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.” - Edward Bernays

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