Crystallizing Public Opinion & Propaganda by Edward Bernays
2023 Oct 14, 7:06am 1,143 views 18 comments
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RayAmerica
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2023 Oct 14, 2:49pm
RayAmerica
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2023 Oct 14, 2:49pm
How Bernays used propaganda to influence women to smoke cigarretes:
After WWI, Bernays was hired by the American Tobacco Company to encourage women to start smoking. While men smoked cigarettes, it was not publicly acceptable for women to smoke. Bernays staged a dramatic public display of women smoking during the Easter Day Parade in New York City. He then told the press to expect that women suffragists would light up “torches of freedom” during the parade to show they were equal to men.
Once Bernays removed the stigma of women smoking, the tobacco industry began running ads informing women of the benefits of smoking:
Try to find a movie from the 30's - 50's in which the main character, both men and women, didn't smoke. No doubt, the tobacco companies paid the studios to have that subliminal advertising in their movies, as did the liquor industry. Later, starting in the 60's, drug use was depicted as being 'hip' and 'cool.' We've all been propagandized, often without even realizing what they are doing to us.
After WWI, Bernays was hired by the American Tobacco Company to encourage women to start smoking. While men smoked cigarettes, it was not publicly acceptable for women to smoke. Bernays staged a dramatic public display of women smoking during the Easter Day Parade in New York City. He then told the press to expect that women suffragists would light up “torches of freedom” during the parade to show they were equal to men.
Once Bernays removed the stigma of women smoking, the tobacco industry began running ads informing women of the benefits of smoking:
Try to find a movie from the 30's - 50's in which the main character, both men and women, didn't smoke. No doubt, the tobacco companies paid the studios to have that subliminal advertising in their movies, as did the liquor industry. Later, starting in the 60's, drug use was depicted as being 'hip' and 'cool.' We've all been propagandized, often without even realizing what they are doing to us.
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Ceffer
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2023 Oct 14, 3:12pm
Ceffer
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2023 Oct 14, 3:12pm
RayAmerica says
Don't have to go that far. Contemporary medias show all kind of smoking. Tobacco pays programs big bucks to portray smoking as an 'enjoyable optional pleasure' as opposed to an addiction that makes you feel miserable if you DON'T do it. Also, actors who darken no doorstep without running to a bar or bottle of wine to slosh down a toddie right away for the liquor and alcohol lobbies.
Like said, once addictions are established, all you have to do is convince the addicts that the first puff, hit, drink whatever is attractive and the addiction takes care of the rest. That's an easy one for the pusher propagandists.
Try to find a movie from the 30's - 50's in which the main character, both men and women, didn't smoke.
Don't have to go that far. Contemporary medias show all kind of smoking. Tobacco pays programs big bucks to portray smoking as an 'enjoyable optional pleasure' as opposed to an addiction that makes you feel miserable if you DON'T do it. Also, actors who darken no doorstep without running to a bar or bottle of wine to slosh down a toddie right away for the liquor and alcohol lobbies.
Like said, once addictions are established, all you have to do is convince the addicts that the first puff, hit, drink whatever is attractive and the addiction takes care of the rest. That's an easy one for the pusher propagandists.
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Patrick
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2024 Jan 27, 3:36pm
Patrick
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2024 Jan 27, 3:36pm
https://honestlyre.substack.com/p/do-your-own-research
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.
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stereotomy
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2024 Jan 29, 1:26pm
stereotomy
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2024 Jan 29, 1:26pm
Bernays was right - most people are herd animals who can easily be manipulated.
Why do you think this country was constructed based on the separation of powers and a representative republic. It was to short-circuit this crap.
Why do you think this country was constructed based on the separation of powers and a representative republic. It was to short-circuit this crap.
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Patrick
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2024 Feb 12, 11:34am
Patrick
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2024 Feb 12, 11:34am
https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/man-in-critical-condition-after-hearing-slightly-differing-viewpoint
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.
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RayAmerica
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2024 Feb 13, 10:55am
RayAmerica
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2024 Feb 13, 10:55am
NEWS
Obama repealed this 1948 act so he could flood our media with endless propaganda…
Peeling back the layers of the Obama era is like opening Pandora’s box and finding out it’s deeper than we thought. Obama might have slithered out of the White House without a flashy “legacy” tag, but he sure did leave a mess. It’s as if he was the Dems and Deep State’s MVP, playing a long game we’re still trying to wrap our heads around. He wasn’t just about making policy changes; he was on a mission to infiltrate every corner of our sacred institutions and flip them inside out for his—and their—advantage. Just look what he did by weaponizing the intel community, churches, health care, and so much more. But if you think Obama had nothing to do with the wild turn our media took, guess again. Obama had a hand in turning our media into a progressive propaganda machine.
How did he do it? Well, back in 2013, he made a move to ditch the Smith-Mundt Act, basically rolling out the red carpet for propaganda in our national media. This wasn’t just a small change; it was a game changer for how stories are told and sold to us to this day.
More here: https://revolver.news/2024/02/obama-repealed-this-1948-act-so-he-could-flood-our-media-with-endless-propaganda/
Obama repealed this 1948 act so he could flood our media with endless propaganda…
Peeling back the layers of the Obama era is like opening Pandora’s box and finding out it’s deeper than we thought. Obama might have slithered out of the White House without a flashy “legacy” tag, but he sure did leave a mess. It’s as if he was the Dems and Deep State’s MVP, playing a long game we’re still trying to wrap our heads around. He wasn’t just about making policy changes; he was on a mission to infiltrate every corner of our sacred institutions and flip them inside out for his—and their—advantage. Just look what he did by weaponizing the intel community, churches, health care, and so much more. But if you think Obama had nothing to do with the wild turn our media took, guess again. Obama had a hand in turning our media into a progressive propaganda machine.
How did he do it? Well, back in 2013, he made a move to ditch the Smith-Mundt Act, basically rolling out the red carpet for propaganda in our national media. This wasn’t just a small change; it was a game changer for how stories are told and sold to us to this day.
More here: https://revolver.news/2024/02/obama-repealed-this-1948-act-so-he-could-flood-our-media-with-endless-propaganda/
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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