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Date: August 17, 2007 12:34:18 PM PDT
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Subject: Don't Think Once
Our "news media" were designed for use as MIND CONTROL long before
Operation Mockingbird
"Propaganda" by Edward L. Bernays, 1928,
With an Introduction by Mark Crispin Miller
Paperback: 168 pages
Publisher: Ig Publishing; New Ed edition, Reprint of the Seminal
1928 U.S. Propaganda Handbook
ISBN-10: 0970312598
http://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Edward-L-Bernays/dp/0970312598
From the Publisher:
"Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into
some of the most powerful and influential institutions of
contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies."-Noam Chomsky
"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."
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda
A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political
thought and public relations, Edward Bernays (1891-1995), pioneered
the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public
opinion, which he famously dubbed "engineering of consent."
During World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee
on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that
was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the
American people as one that would "Make the World Safe for
Democracy." The CPI would become the blueprint in which marketing
strategies for future wars would be based upon.
Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and,
incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, became an
outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and
corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell
Propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using
propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas,
including government, politics, art, science and education. To read
this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary
institutions of government and business have become in regards to
organized manipulation of the masses.
This is the first reprint of Propaganda in over 30 years and
features an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush
Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder.
From an online reviewer:
A master of his craft, in "Propaganda" Edward Bernays splendidly
advocates the art he defines as the "consistent, enduring effort to
create or shape events to influence the relations of the public to
an enterprise, idea or group." (p.52). Some may recoil from his
assertions that propaganda is necessary to give order to a chaotic
world and that in a democracy, an intelligent minority must
"regiment and guide the masses" ... "to clear understanding and
intelligent action." (p.127 & 128)
As refreshing today as when he wrote eighty years ago, Bernays
explains that, contrary to what many believe, propaganda is not
confined to corporate advertising, but is indispensable to
political parties, special interest groups, news media, and some
government agencies.
Details:
Paperback: 168 pages
Publisher: Ig Publishing; New Ed edition, Reprint of the Seminal
1928 U.S. Propaganda Handbook
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0970312598
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