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Try to find a movie from the 30's - 50's in which the main character, both men and women, didn't smoke.
This, in turn, inverts the credibility hierarchy, as the individual or organization being labeled “an expert” by the Party, now means the exact opposite in reality, i.e., the presence of that “credential” certifies that the holder has subjugated any and all expertise in the service of the Party and its narrative, otherwise they would not have been awarded their credential. Similarly, the chillingly dystopian “trusted source” designation is a similarly clever semantic trick, as the Party is indeed telling you to “trust” the source, but they are neither inviting you to investigate that source for yourself, nor establishing why they should be trusted save once again pointing at their Party-approved credential. This circular logic creates an unfalsifiable feedback loop in the mind of the Indoctrinated.
GLENDALE, CA - A man was rushed to the hospital yesterday after encountering a slightly different viewpoint than his own.
Shortly before 12:30 p.m., Glendale PD officers responded to a 911 call at the Java Lounge Coffee House in the 900 block of North Emerson Road. They found a man who had collapsed in shock and went to the station for help. Witnesses say the man was having a casual conversation about politics with another patron when the minutely opposing viewpoint was expressed.
"They were both Democrats, Bernie supporters," said Janice Hughson, a barista at the Java Lounge. "Then the guy he was talking to said he had some issues with abortion and thinks there should at least be a few limitations put on the practice. That's when the man seized up and began foaming at the mouth. It was terrible."
Four other bystanders were also emotionally injured by the moderately divergent opinion but were not hospitalized.
The man is being kept stable on ideology support at St. Francis medical center, surrounded by friends and family who agree with him 100% on every single issue.
The man who suggested the slightly differing opinion fled the scene. Anyone with information is asked to alert the authorities.
Edward Bernays is perhaps the most important, and, influential person in American history that few people have heard of. Governments, revolutionaries and corporations all hired him to help them achieve their goals. His methods of mind control on a massive scale are still being studied and used.
A nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays is considered to be the father of public relations. He believed, and built his long career on the premise that the masses were irrational and subject to herd instinct—and he outlined how skilled practitioners could use crowd psychology and psychoanalysis to control them in desired ways. He applied his techniques to effectively sell the masses on everything from smoking cigarettes to eating bacon with your eggs to overthrowing governments and to rallying the the unwilling masses to go to war.
Just a sample: “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. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.” - Edward Bernays, Crystallizing Public Opinion
If you haven't already, consider taking the time to read these relatively small books. Both are considered classics and are still being read and studied. If you do read these, you'll never look at the world the same again. Free download in a number of different formats here: (I usually download as a PDF)
Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923)
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.1607/page/n3/mode/2up
Propaganda (1929)
https://archive.org/details/Propaganda_Edward_L_Bernays_1928.pdf