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[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A lot of people aren't confortable with the idea that the government could manipulate them with bad intentions, so what better way of proving that we are right than with a quote from the father of modern brainwashing, Eddy Bernays himself?

It's a quote from Bernays saying that the people who manipulate public opinion are the true rulers of the country and he would know, considering he helped create the modern consumer society with the ideas he took from his uncle Freud.

[–]Alan_Crowe 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are people really OK with the government manipulating them with good intentions? The way people talk about democracy, it is good because the people are actually the ones taking the decisions. Democracy is a sham because Bernays' invisible government actually take the decisions and then implement them by manipulating the people into voting for them. But I've never heard any-one praise the sham, on the grounds that the invisible government have good intentions.