How to Brainwash a Nation
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From Episode Two of the film series "The Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, 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.For more free films visit: http://www.BrasscheckTV.com
Canal: News & Politics
Añadido: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Autor: Wrayer
Duración: 07:27
Puntuación: 4.85
Reproducciones: 39943
Etiquetas: bernays brainwash edward nation
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joneselius (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Yes, the conditioning was used to make the dog do specific tasks on the sound of a bell. Salivate and so fourth.Now what happens when you slap a 'buy one get one free' sticker on an item in a shop. The masses flock around it as though the reality of buying something to get something free is REAL. It's an outcome derived from a continuous exposure to the same bullshi* that overrides all our senses to make us act a certain way. Aka advertising.
625asa (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is why the world will and will continue to hate america!!! The people are just blind and dumb.
reforest4fertility (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
...compartMentalizing minds of the people. Like more sycretic work needs to be done in universities, there's similar overspecialisation in docu films, as if each cause was a separate bandwagon to trumpet. But the sources of our causes/problems are not so disparate, rather they're damn near the same sliver of each nation's population.I thought operant conditioning was Pavlov's dog trick, the crux of all conditioning operating on the body politic, keeping a deadbeat populace we must resurrect.
reforest4fertility (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Yes, Margaret Atwood, a Canadian author, once wrote a poem, It's Dangerous to Read Newspapers. Yes, the mainscream news is negatively framed, not to mention most other program content. But even in progressive documentaries I notice clarity of focus on the problem and fuzzyness & scant mention of solutions, that which could give us hope. Projects to embark on, positive examples to set, directions to sustainability, how to maybe dissolve the glass ceiling. Then the problem of too narrow focus...
joneselius (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
We did.We just don't have as much say in our 'democracy'.I should also point out, we know what Obama actually IS. I'll clue you in:It's called Operant conditioning, you are MEANT to like what he stands for - he is everything Bush wasn't. It's that change you voted for, but DON'T BE FOOLED. He has gone back on the oil tax, the poor tax and the Fed as well as the war in Iraq and he's not even in OFFICE YET!Please be aware, trust in yourself and God eh ;)Our press is all negative too.
reforest4fertility (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Obama has plenty to deal with at home, like the rightwing nuts the US civil service is stacked with. His being "inexperienced" is refreshing to me, considering what the seasoned politicians have done to the country and to the world. What should shock Americans here is this documentary series and The Power of Nightmares are BBC, like PBS. This reflects how much more free the UK press is compared to US.But then why didn't better informed Britons better resist going to pointless heinous war?
Iverielii (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
mystrat0, yeah I meant Obama is very inexperienced and this was further confirmed based on his cabinet choices of highly experienced officials and Pulitzer winning scientists.I really hope Obama stands up to genocidal maniac, authoritarian dictators like Putin.By the way, Putin doesn't have a lawn, he has a carpet made from Chechen skulls and babies.
mystrat0 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This posted against the wrong entry... was trying 2 post against yer earlier "obama is greener than my lawn." Did you mean green as in inexperienced? I took it as he was environmental, which is killing us all. I guess it could have meant, he's a German Green Party member? I don't think he's a pacifist so that doesn't quite fit but ya never know, he does like consensus.Now Putin may muscle some people, but never fear Hillary would land a helicopter on Putin's lawn and pee on his camelias
Iverielii (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
mystrat0, wtf are you talking about? I hate Bush. He is the reason for so many problems and for our current international unpopularity, among dozens of other problems.I just hope Obama is not all talk and doesn't piss his pants when someone like Putin tries to muscle him.
mystrat0 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Dear Iverielii - you may want to get your head out of polluted sand. If we don't move past oil industry propaganda of hybrid & get to pure electic cars we're all up the spout. Just because Bush suppressed the scientists voices does not mean they are not recognizing what is happening to the world. It's hot!! And directly due to fossil fuel. Last time I saw people idolize a politician? I haven't. But it would have been Dwight Eisenhower, & before that, Winston Churchill. WAKE UP OSTRICHES
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