In a lot of ways, like the Executive Branch/DoJ running wild, it resembles our current situation with a DoJ exceeding it's powers and deliberately inflicting illegal, un-Constitutional, and criminal injustice for political reasons. People should read about the actions taken and policies enacted by Wilson domestically. Wilson was a real racist/segregationist, political/policy-opposition-arresting piece of work all on his own. I believe Stalin is reported to have taken many propaganda ideas and concepts from Bernays's work as well. Goebbels owned a copy of Bernays's book on the subject IIRC, and acknowledged Bernays's and Wilson's achievements with the use of propaganda domestically and utilized many of their techniques and principals in Nazi propaganda programs. Bernays, Carl Byoir and John Price Jones worked together to influence public opinion towards supporting American participation in World War I. In 1917, US President Woodrow Wilson engaged George Creel and realizing one of his ideas, he founded the Committee on Public Information. He called this scientific technique of opinion-molding the 'engineering of consent'.īernays began his career as press agent in 1913, counseling to theaters, concerts and the ballet. ' If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits.' Bernays also pioneered the PR industry's use of psychology and other social sciences to design its public persuasion campaigns: The amazing thing is that it still works.Īctually, if you count it as a subset of propaganda, then you need to go back to Edward Bernays and the Wilson administration's implementation of the first government propaganda agency, the Committee on Public Information.īernays's public relations efforts helped to popularize Freud's theories in the United States. It's so old that one can't even say how old it is.

Perhaps they copied it from the Inquisition, or from any of many other prior 'practitioners of the art'.

If anything they copied it from the Nazis, but then the Nazis didn't originate it either. Sorry, but the Soviets didn't invent that trick.

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