To understand the way corporations, media, and government (especially the shadow-govt., aka deep state) manipulate or ‘gaslight’ public awareness/discourse and political process, it is necessary to roll back the calendar 100 years and examine the works of Edward Bernays.

He was a nephew of Sigmund Freud, and used this knowledge of the un/subconscious mind to exploit the general public for personal gain, and is self-credited with creating the ‘profession’ of Public Relations. Soon his corporate clientele and eventually government bureaucracies seized upon this knowledge for their own agendas. The rest, it’s said, is history.

It’s also important to note there once were many thousands of independently owned newspapers, magazines, book publishers, radio stations, tv stations, movie studios in America. Now virtually ALL such media is owned by just six mega-conglomerates. Can you say monopoly on “news and information” ?

CRYSTALLIZING PUBLIC OPINION (1923)

A seminal work on how public opinion is created and shaped, Edward Bernays’ 1923 classic Crystallizing Public Opinion set down the principles that corporations and government have used to influence public attitudes over the past century. A primer on the then new profession of public relations counsel, Crystallizing elucidates the instruments and techniques that PR professionals use to mold public opinion on behalf of their client s interests. By adapting the ideas that Bernays put forth in this book, governments and advertisers have been able to regiment the mind like the military regiments the body.

The first ever book ever written about the public relations industry, this all-new 2011 edition of Crystallizing Public Opinion features an introduction by Stuart Ewen, author of PR! A Social History of Spin, All Consuming Images: On the Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture, and Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture.

PROPAGANDA (1928)

The landmark work by the man who has come to be known as The Father of Spin. "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." - from page 9.

Chapters include: Organizing Chaos; The New Propaganda; The New Propagandists; The Psychology of Public Relations; Business and the Public; Propaganda and Political Leadership; Women's Activities and Propaganda; Propaganda for Education; Propaganda in Social Services; Art and Science; The Mechanics of Propaganda.

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Here is a superb four-part documentary series on Bernays and the birth of ‘Public Relations’. Your world-view will be forever changed and expanded. A LOT of things about ‘modern society’ will make sense! (and anything else by Adam Curtis!)

The Century of the Self (2002) by Adam Curtis

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtPP_-rkrT3DMuDOfFoRyeFmKGdbCw8NK

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"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." – William Colby, former CIA Director, cited by Dave McGowan, Derailing Democracy

"There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don't need to manipulate Time Magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level." – William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, briefing members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein

"The Agency's relationship with [The New York] Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. It was general Times policy … to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible." - The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein

"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)

"Senator William Proxmire has pegged the number of employees of the federal intelligence community at 148,000 … though Proxmire's number is itself a conservative one. The "intelligence community" is officially defined as including only those organizations that are members of the U.S. Intelligence Board (USIB); a dozen other agencies, charged with both foreign and domestic intelligence chores, are not encompassed by the term…. The number of intelligence workers employed by the federal government is not 148,000, but some undetermined multiple of that number." – Jim Hougan, Spooks: The Haunting of America – the Private Use of Secret Agents (1978)

"For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government…. I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations." – former President Harry Truman, 22 December 1963, one month after the JFK assassination, op-ed section of the Washington Post, early edition

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"The President Obama is coming into office at a moment when there is upheaval in many parts of the world simultaneously, "Kissinger responded: "You have India, Pakistan; you have the jihadist movement. So he can't really say there is one problem, that it's the most important one. But he can give new impetus to American foreign policy partly because the reception of him is so extraordinary around the world. His task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when, really, a new world order can be created. It's a great opportunity, it isn't just a crisis." – Henry Kissinger at the New York Stock Exchange, January 2009

https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php

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The Century of the Self -

A four-part documentary series written, directed, narrated by Adam Curtis.

The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which most are unaware. The Century of the Self, written and produced by Adam Curtis, is an exhaustive examination of his theories on human desire, and how they're applied to platforms such as advertising, consumerism and politics. This four-hour odyssey is divided into four distinct segments.

Happiness Machines.

The first episode concerns Edward Bernays, Freud's nephew and one of the most influential pioneers in public relations. Appealing to what his uncle believed were the aggressive and prurient forces hidden inside of all mankind, Bernays manipulated these inner desires to promote group thinking - first in drumming up the patriotic support of U.S. citizens during World War I and later in the realm of advertising.

The Engineering of Consent.

Perhaps the darkest illustration of Freud's philosophy can be found in Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The film's second segment recounts the efforts of Bernays and Freud's daughter Anna, who collaborated alongside the American government to devise methods for suppressing the barbaric potential of the human mind. It was only through these activities, the government believed, that a harmonious democracy would be possible.

There is a Policeman Inside All of Our Heads, He Must Be Destroyed.

Segment three takes place during a vastly different period of American history: the 1960s. As dissenters of Freud began to come to prominence, so too did a younger generation who were determined to fully embrace and flaunt their inner desires. Following on their lead, corporations and their advertisers morphed their message from one of conformity to a celebration of the individual. In so doing, they showed that the tenants of Freud's theories could be successfully manipulated regardless of the temperature of the times.

Eight People Sipping Wine In Kettering.

The final section takes us full throttle into the universe of politics. During the 1990s, in a desperate measure to regain the White House, the Democratic Party enlisted the assistance of Matthew Freud, a public relations expert and the great-grandson of Sigmund. With a determined reliance on focus groups, the party recalibrated their campaigns to fulfill the innermost desires of the American people. Shortly thereafter, Bill Clinton became the 42nd President of the United States.

Whether these tactics were employed for reasons of nobility or perversion is for viewers to decide. Regardless, The Century of the Self unlocks many essential human truths; chiefly, our vulnerability to influence and our need to be controlled, as believed by society elites.