How to Brainwash a Nation

[1Hippiechick]

Run time: 07:27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ8ZvYNlxiM   Posted on YouTube: October 22, 2006 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 04, 2008 By DU Member: 1Hippiechick Views on DU: 573

 
This film series is an eye-opener about how the media has been used to manipulate the masses. I strongly suggest that you also view "Happiness Machines" 6-part series on YouTube.


From Episode Two of the film series "The Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis. The nephew of Sigmund Freud,


"The stated purpose of Bernay's methods was to give those in power greater control over what he called "the mass mind." It worked well in the 1950s and sadly, it appears to be working quite well today... but maybe not forever."


Edward Bernays started his business life as a publicist. While still in his twenties, he was part of the propaganda effort that drove the United States into in World War I (WW I.)

He personally advised several US presidents starting with Woodrow Wilson and counseled numerous corporations and business associations. Hitler's propaganda chief and Nazi henchman Joseph Goebbels was a reader and fan of Bernay's writing in particular Bernay's book "Crystalizing Public Opinion."

In this short excerpt from Curtis's film we see one example of Bernays at work.

Bernays was one of the engineers of the Cold War. He perfected the technique of manufacturing a distant but ever-threatening enemy and then creating a constant state of fear by generating false news reports that endlessly re-stated and exagerated the threat.

The stated purpose of Bernay's methods was to give those in power greater control over what he called "the mass mind." It worked well in the 1950s and sadly, it appears to be working quite well today... but maybe not forever.

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[gateley]

1. Wow.

It's always about the money. And we ARE so easily manipulated.

I'm grateful that we now have easy access to information from around the world, rather than only hearing our own country's propaganda.

Who would have thunk? Propaganda in America?

I'm beginning to believe that the America we think we know, that we believed in, is just a fairy tail. As long as we don't cause too many problems, they'll let us carry on and live the illusion. I don't know what's going to happen now that the illusion is falling apart.

Recommend. And I'll probably be up for hours watching the other films.

[1Hippiechick]

3. I will be interested in knowing your reaction after watching the other films. I was enraged

and believe that we as a nation have been being duped for generations. Thanks for recommending - the films belw me away, for sure.

[democracy1st]

2. thanks 1Hippiechick valuable information