THE FATHER OF PR MAGGOTS

The quotes below are from the father of public relations maggots. Edward Bernays was hailed as a master of propaganda. He wrote a book called Propaganda in 1928. He was an FDR/Kennedy liberal that believed a chosen few could manipulate the masses to believe anything. The arrogance of this prick was beyond compehension. But guess what? He was right. The government, corporations and Madison Avenue slime have used his methods to manipulate and control the masses for decades, and it continues today.

His major coup, the one that really propelled him into fame in the late 1920s, was getting women to smoke. Women didn’t smoke in those days and he ran huge campaigns for Chesterfield. You know all the techniques—models and movie stars with cigarettes coming out of their mouths and that kind of thing. He got enormous praise for that. So he became a leading figure of the industry.

The master manipulator in his own words:

“It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.”

“The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.”

“Those who manipulate the 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, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. In almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”

“In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.”

“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.”

“A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.”

“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.”