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2.2 ruling class in the favor of creating illusions so as to conceal the true nature of the big game being played
2.1 similar to a chess game
2.1.1 have a population of ignorant pawns
2.1.2 not an array of opponents capable of creating an effective resistance
Manufacture of Consent
3.2 Noam Chomsky: Walter Lippman refers it to a revolution in the practice of democracy, a technique of control which is exercised by the
specialized class
to elude the common interests from the public
3.1 term taken from
Walter Lippman's
, book (
Public Opinion
1921)
3.3 in 1917 during WWI Woodrow Wilson (28th American President) formed a propaganda committee known as Committee on Public Information (CPI) to build support for the war with American population
3.3.1 Edward Bernays (member CPI) psychologically promoted
the idea that the war was fought to "make the world safe for democracy"
3.3.1.1 Edward Bernays was Sigmund Freud's nephew
3.3.1.2 Bernays studied Freud, Le Bon, Wilfred Trotter, Walter Lippman and combined their perspective and synthesized them into an applied science which he call
public relations
3.3.1.3 in 1919, Bernays after the war opened the world's first public relations agency known as
The Council on Public Relations
3.3.1.4 Bernays specialty was engineering social trends for clients, example of which was the introduction of smoking among women which was symbolized as
torches of freedom
3.3.1.5 Bernays, among other successful endeavor, aided the CIA and Chiquita Brands International in a successful campaign to topple the democratic Guatemalan government in 1954
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3.3.1.6 Bernays was successful because of applying three psychological tactics on which he wrote his famous books
Propaganda
and
Crystalizing Public Opinion
3.3.1.6.4 1951 psychologist Solomon Asch conducted an experiment on groups of students to measure the effects and causes of social conformity and how it alters perception
3.3.1.6.4.1 2005 neuroscientist Gregory Berns set to answer the questions raised by Solomon Asch in his experiment, through a variation of the Asch's conformity experiment. Berns found out that
social conformity literally causes the brain to rewrite our reality
3.3.1.6.4.2 Stanley Milgram, Yale University psychologist, in 1961 conducted experiments to measure the willingness of individuals to obey authority figures. Conclusions are always consistent:
aura of authority exercises an almost irresistible force over the human mind, easily overriding core morals and ethics, no legitimate authority is necessary appearances suffice
3.3.1.6.2 influencing opinion leaders and perceived authority figures to reach their followers
3.3.1.6.3 initiating the contagion of behaviors and ideas through social conformity
3.3.1.6.1 creating carefully calculated associations with the subconscious fears and desires of individuals
3.3.1.7 Joseph's Goebbels (Hitler's propaganda minister) was using Bernays book
Crystallizing Public Opinion
for his destructive campaign against Jews of Germany (as acknowledged by Bernays in his 1965 autobiography
Biography of an Idea
)
3.4 Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays, Walter Lippman subscribed to a school of thought of Gustave Le Bon (French social Psychologist) which was introduced in 1895.
3.4.1 Gustave Le Bon's famous book, translated into English
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
presented an in depth description of group psychology and outlined principles for leaders to spark ideological contagion and rise to power
3.4.1.1 Hitler, Goebbels, Mussolini all studied Le Bon's writings and applied his techniques
3.4.1.2 Freud's book
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
was a critique of the works of Le Bon and William McDougall. Their work differentiated between individual and group psychology and explained how human groups can be controlled for long periods through manipulation of group identity, belief system, and social structures
3.5 Walter Lippman, Edward Bernays,Woodrow Wilson referred to
Invisible Government
as something very real and concrete as they directly participated in its creation
3.5.1
The Inquiry
was a group of 150 men assembled by Woodrow Wilson to gather data necessary to
make the world safe for democracy
after WW I was over.
3.5.1.1 among the members were Walter Lippman, Paul Warburg (father of the Federal Reserve), and Edward House.
3.5.1.2 from 1917 to 1918, the group compiled over 2000 documents to be used during postwar negotiations.
3.5.1.3 Walter Lippman authored the famous
14 points document
which proposed the creation of the
League of Nations
3.5.1.4 in 1919 some members of the
Inquiry
met with some British diplomats to form a permanent institution. In July, 1921 a joint force of high-ranking officers of banking, manufacturing , trading and finance companies led by Elihu Root was formed called the
Council on Foreign Relations CFR
3.5.1.4.2 among the corporate members of
CFR
are Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Chevron, Exxon, Shell, BP Oil, GE, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Bloomberg, etc.
3.5.1.4.1 John Foster Dulles, one of the founding members of CFR, convinced President Eisenhower to use the CIA to topple the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 and be replaced by a US supported brutal dictator, The Shah
3.5.1.4.3 Dulles also was responsible for the 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala. Bernays convinced the Guatemalan public that their government was backed by the Soviets
3.5.1.4.4 Bernays, once again, succeeded in setting a trend and for the coming 40 years US justified their global invasions and cover operations under the name of communism
3.5.1.4.5 CFR member McGeorge Bundy (National Security advisor under Kennedy) was responsible for encouraging the escalation of Vietnam War
3.5.1.4.6 Henry Kissinger, member CFR, was National Security Advisor under President Nixon and was responsible for the CIA led overthrowing the democratically elected president of Chile Salvador Allende. He was replaced with Augusto Pinochet, another brutal dictator
3.5.1.4.7 Zbigniew Brzezinski, CFR member, National Security Advisor under President Carter was behind funding and arming mujahideen in Pakistan and Afghanistan. These mujahideen are now known as Taliban
3.5.1.4.8 Reagan's National Security Advisors Richard V. Allen and Robert C. McFarlane were members of the council as was his Secretary of State George Shultz. George Schultz was the man behind the attempted overthrow of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua
3.5.1.4.9 Obama administration attempted to initiate an attack on Syrian government by funding and arming militants who then committed atrocities. Zbigniew Brezinski was Obama's personal mentor
3.5.1.4.10 Clinton, Madeline Albright (Secretary of State) were members of the council. Albright was in charge of sanctions on Iraq
Colin Powell, Stephen Hadley, Condoleezza Rice, Henry Paulson (former CEO of Goldman Sachs, responsible for banker bailouts in 2008) are all members of the CFR
3.5.1.4.11 Caroll Quigley, personal mentor of Bill Clinton, is a professor of history at Georgetown University. In his book
Tragedy and Hope
identified the CFR and the Institute of International Affairs as key hubs
3.5.1.4.11.1 The secret power of the CFR and round table groups lies in the clever application of the techniques of Bernays
Group Psychology
4.1 a weapon, capable of being used for good or for evil
