The United States of Propaganda (What We’re Up Against) | Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
Feb. 26, 2013
The 20th century (was) characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
- Alex Carey
Recently, while at an event marking the 1,000th day of imprisonment for Bradley Manning, I began to ponder the long and storied role of propaganda that led up to his demonization and incarceration.
Yes,
propaganda
A scientific method of managing behavior
Given the unspeakable lessons learned from Joseph Goebbels and Nazi Germany, propaganda has long been a dirty word. But when public relations pioneer Edward Bernays got his start in the early 20th century, it was a word less charged but equally as potent. In fact, Bernays unabashedly named one of his books Propaganda.
Edward Bernays was surely one of the most amazing and influential characters of the twentieth century, explains PR watchdog, John Stauber. He was a nephew of Sigmund Freud and helped to popularize Freudianism in the United States. Later, he used his relation to Freud to promote himself. And from his uncle's psychoanalysis techniques, Bernays developed a scientific method of managing behavior, to which he gave the name public relations.
The Vienna-born Bernays was heavily influenced, of course, by his uncles work, but it was in the service of war that he helped shape what we call PR today.
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