Are the Masses (Herds) Systematically Manipulated?
History of Propaganda in the USA after 1900:
In the early 20th century, Edward L Bernays pioneered propaganda methods designed to shape consumer behavior and affect personal decisions. ?Emphasis was on subliminal psychosexual influences in his works.?His uncle was Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, famous for his clinical methods for evaluating and treating psychologies through dialogue between the patient and psychoanalysis. ?Bernays studied all his uncle’s works and adopted his subliminal psychosexual suggestions to influence the behavior of mass populations and consumer purchasing habits.
Many American corporations hired him to help increase sales by using subliminal suggestions that appealed to consumers’ emotions. ?Rather than selling a car because of its quality and durability, sell it because you will attract more and better-looking women. ?He convinced women to smoke cigarettes in public by appealing to the social acceptability and the sub-conscientious need to be independent of men. ?The concept is “sell the sizzle, not the steak,” with a long history of success.
He even thought up a more socially acceptable replacement name for the negative connotation of propaganda by renaming the activity “Public Relations (PR)” This guy was one smart dude.
Edward Bernays worked as an agent of the US Government to sway public opinion. ?The Committee of Public Information hired Bernays to promote positive public opinion for the US in WWI and various military pursuits through what he referred to as “psychological warfare.” He built programs to get the public to support warfare, domestically and abroad.?Political figures such as Herbert Hoover regularly consulted with Bernays about how to destroy the opposition.
The public relations industry employs about 107,000 people and 12,000 federal lobbyist firms. ?The industry spends about $90 billion in advertising, PR, and related services and 4 billion dollars in lobbying annually to promote their agendas. ?These folks do not consider themselves manipulators.?They encourage and create a public image for their clients, individuals, groups, and organizations and direct new laws to benefit the corporations, labor unions, and particular interest subsets they represent. ?They plan programs, select materials, write favorable bills, lobby, donate, and work to pass legislation, and write communications to promote their biased agendas through various media and government sources.
Their clients have large pocketbooks and purchase mainstream media support for dollars and government influence for dollars.?The US Chamber of Commerce, the Oil and Gas industry, and Pharmaceuticals/Health Products are examples.
Any plan need not be rational, practical, feasible, ethical, or lawful, but the media will willingly play the support role.?Mainstream media serves as paid patsies that promote government agendas for fees, access, taxation credit benefits, and advertising dollars.?Even federal agencies spend about $1.5 billion on PR each year.
Money and power influence local, state, federal, and governments worldwide! ?Call it what you will! ?Money will buy an invitation.?When was one of us commoners last invited to the White House? ?They may serve Chateaubriand with $2500 bottles of wine, 2018 Chateau Haut-Brion-1989, or something similar.?A 100-point rated red wine is good for the soul.?But who is counting when the taxpayers are on the hook for dinner and entertainment?
Subliminal Seduction and Manipulation:?
The CIA and US Military have used subliminal Seduction since the 1970s.?It involves training and attempting to modify a person’s subconscious mind. ?Wilson Bryan Key wrote a book in 1973 that taught psychologically powerful covert mind control methods. ?The intent was to teach radically potent covert seduction secrets on attracting and seducing women or men using subliminal mind control techniques.
We, The Masses:
Are we, the masses, systematically discouraged from critical thinking and subliminally manipulated by the government and its institutions? ?Does the government’s public education system, including K 1-12, and public colleges, promote indoctrination that subscribes to leftist, woke, critical race theory, cancel-culture, and gender fluidity ideology, and acceptance of any approved establishment narrative?
Is public awareness now a preplanned manufactured thought process with little involvement for original thought by the public? ?Does this indoctrination include the submission of individual sovereignty to the state??The term brainwashing comes to mind.?Spoon feeding comes to mind.??What percentage of the American public readily accepts and lives daily lives of spoon-feeding and brainwashing without question??A comical spin is what percentage of each major political party falls into this category.?Is there a difference?
Does mainstream media distribute preplanned propaganda (fake news) segments designed for indoctrination toward any chosen ideology and to direct, redirect, and modify our behavior?
Mainstream Media Bias:
Mika Brzezinski, a liberal political commentator from MSNBC, recently stated publicly the following:
“The dangerous edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his facts, and it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsen, he could have undermined the message so much that he can control exactly what people think. ?That is our job.”?Her co-host, Joe Scarborough, replies, “Yeah.”
Another mainstream “media analyst,” David Zurawik, on CNN, proclaimed that Eldon Musk is “dangerous” and should not be allowed to restore free speech on the Twitter platform.
“There’s a bigger problem here about how we’re going to control the channels of communications in this country,”
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“You need regulation. ?You cannot let these guys control discourse in this country, or we are headed to hell,”
The proposition that CNN or any other media outlet or publicity hound cannot manipulate the conversation to dictate what the American people should hear or believe is a wake-up call.?Critical thinkers do not need biased media propaganda to interpret real or fake news.
Public dissemination of news and advertising is tightly controlled.?Six large mega-media corporations control ninety percent of everything the public listens to, watches or reads.?Comcast, Disney, AT&T, Sony, Fox, and Paramount Global control the US media. ?They distribute ideological and well-thought-out preplanned government propaganda, always with advertising segments and a profit motive.??The pursuit of advertising dollars is paramount.
With the new wonk ideology so pervasive, it is no wonder that society does not entirely melt down.?Investigative journalism and potentially newsworthy stories must pass through a tightly controlled sieve for an establishment-based corporate conditional acceptance.
Big tech participates in an ideological driven “propaganda machine in coordination with the cancel culture.” Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, and others use algorithms to determine whether your content is acceptable to them.?Agree to accept any definition of conformance to the hegemonic narrative, or your account will be disabled or canceled, or disparaged for “spreading disinformation.”?“Conform to the approved narrative,” or you will become isolated and considered an outsider or a “domestic terrorist.” Be “damned” with facts, truth, or rational thinking.
There is a false expectation for us to accept, agree, and consent to what mainstream media tells us, regardless of how negatively it affects our families and ourselves. ?Every action suggested by mainstream media is about profits for the mega-corporations or special interest groups.
Should the masses habitually agree to pay much higher taxes, comply with ungodly increased regulations, obediently accept inflation as a tax, conform to more rules of control and isolation, and continue to take unproven vaccine COVID injections while remaining silent and obedient?
Submission to the government mandates:
Should we readily agree to take the next booster injection shot tested by injecting only eight mice and no human beings? ?Now, that is some fantastical clinical trial and scientific evidence of effectiveness! ?The medical establishment will make billions of dollars off the masses, thanks to these famous eight mice. ?The media will make billions of dollars of profits through promotion and advertising.
A significant question is why so few people object to these indoctrination, manipulation, and submission tactics. ?The outcome of current government actions is outright declaring war against the masses and open tyranny.
The unvaccinated folks experienced gaslighting for years and were banished from societies as outcasts and misfits.?Millions of families, relationships, economic livelihoods, homes, and businesses were destroyed because of failure to submit. ?Alienation, ridicule, and isolation were the answer for being strong enough to reject the fraudulent medical establishment scheme to make billions of profits using scientifically unproven vaccines.
Almost all my friends who agreed to the initial round of vaccines subsequently refused any additional booster shots. ?Triple and quadruple vaccinated folks have a higher chance of getting COVID and dying (of course, reported as unknown or natural causes). ?The ultimate result of repeated vaccines and boosters weaken people’s immune systems and make them susceptible to immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
“There is no need for us to think independently because the media and the government will let us know what we should think through government-controlled propaganda-based (fake news) channels. ?And the media and the government will decide what is in our best interest.” “Don’t question the outcome because they both got your back.” The question always arises of where the money trail is and who will make the trillions of dollars of profits. ?The government suggests no actions without a trial of dollars and financial rewards attached.
The FDA is performing non-public clinical trials because they now recognize the dangers and damage it has done to society.?They have discovered that mRNA shots raise the risk of Covid hospitalizations and death over time. ?At the same time, California has a new bill SB 2098, regarding physicians and surgeons: unprofessional conduct. ?The bill would punish doctors for “unprofessional conduct” for disseminating or misinformation about SARS-Cov2 coronavirus. ?The doctors must stick to the official narrative prescribed by big Pharma or be subject to reprimand or loss of medical license.?The hell with what is in the best interest of the public.
Organizing propaganda programs in the USA designed to control and manipulate the masses has a long history. ?The same can be stated for other countries worldwide.
The masses have lived with manipulative propaganda and mind control for a very long time, which will continue at an accelerated rate. ?No actions are suggested or taken by the government without profits to corporations, labor unions, and friends of the government. ?I am attaching some excellent reads that expand on this subject.
These first two articles are an “absolutely must-read.”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/10/edward-curtin/only- adult-children-still-believe-u-s-propaganda/
The subjects of manipulation, propaganda, subversive control tactics, and public relations are fascinating but may cause anguish to people who consider themselves analytical and critical thinkers. ?The real takeaway is never to trust the media or the establishment pushing their agenda.
There are many alternative news sources where one can get truthful news without hidden subversive agendas. ?Genuine information allows the reader to evaluate the facts for critical thinking. ??Analyzing your facts is the only way to protect your sovereignty.
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Thank you,
Dan Harkey