Yes! I am a "survivor" of a family all up for all of the program since before my Mom was born in 1919. I pun that she was "born a Bircher and Died a Birther," but she was primed, I think in DNA, ready for John Birch when he came along. She kept copies of "The Protocols... Zion" in living room and bathroom, in case any visitor missed it. She had a Master's degree from a prestigious U., and bought hook, line, sinker the one about "sluts," (her word), "using abortion as birth control," seen often to this day. The almighty gerrymander, and Mitch McConnell, have made this ilk our almost masters. God Bless America.
Wow - that's a powerful story, dating back farther than I could have imagined. Was there ever a time, then, when this wasn't the case? Are we just seeing the breadth of what "always was," and has just grown ever more so?
Yes! I really think Bernays was the epicenter of so much of this. Maybe they would have eventually figured it out anyway, but the way he brought Freud's ideas into the marketplace pretty much seems to have remade the world.
You need to write a post explaining propaganda and how it has been used to shape the American mind, to make us what we are today.
Yes—perhaps he has, but I would love to see that connection explicitly made, over and over: these seeds are sprouting in fertile soil.
Yes! I am a "survivor" of a family all up for all of the program since before my Mom was born in 1919. I pun that she was "born a Bircher and Died a Birther," but she was primed, I think in DNA, ready for John Birch when he came along. She kept copies of "The Protocols... Zion" in living room and bathroom, in case any visitor missed it. She had a Master's degree from a prestigious U., and bought hook, line, sinker the one about "sluts," (her word), "using abortion as birth control," seen often to this day. The almighty gerrymander, and Mitch McConnell, have made this ilk our almost masters. God Bless America.
Wow - that's a powerful story, dating back farther than I could have imagined. Was there ever a time, then, when this wasn't the case? Are we just seeing the breadth of what "always was," and has just grown ever more so?
The Russians learned from Woodrow Wilson's CPI and from Edward Bernay, then they became the experts! We are now the dupes!
Yes! I really think Bernays was the epicenter of so much of this. Maybe they would have eventually figured it out anyway, but the way he brought Freud's ideas into the marketplace pretty much seems to have remade the world.