The Engineering of Consent: How You are Brainwashed Into Obedience Through Rage (Edward Bernays)

We like to think that our beliefs are arrived at independently and are grounded on firm evidence. But what if this is a self-delusion? What if our smug self-satisfaction is standing in the way of an astonishing discovery: WE HAVE BEEN MANIPULATED into our positions!

All around us are signs that powerful interests seek to mold and shape public opinion in order to further their own ends. It is worse than that. We have been studied. Analyzed. Categorized. Beginning in particular in the Progressive Era with the advent of the "Administrative State" (read: the MANAGED state), and arcing into the realms of the behavioral psychologists, humans have been reduced to veritable dogs at the mercy of our Statist Pavlovs.

Important questions arise: on what basis, really, rest our most firmly held values and beliefs? If it was inserted into our brains by our Minders, how would we know this? How can we tell the difference between our own thoughts, and theirs? Is it so bad, parroting the mantras the Elite want us to parrot? Surely such rich and powerful people would only indoctrinate us for our own good, right? Right?

In this video, we raise reasonable doubt. In future videos, we will probe further. In the meantime, you've got some reading to do. Featured in this video is Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda (and literally the author of a book by the same name). He himself states that he was influenced by Wilfred Trotter and Walter Lippmann. Here are (affiliate) links to their books:

By Bernays:
"Crystallizing Public Opinion" - https://amzn.to/3AfxulM
"Propaganda" - https://amzn.to/3X2b3KR
His essay, "The Engineering of Consent" can be found via search engine.

"Public Opinion: The Original 1922 Edition" - https://amzn.to/3TDKKYz
"Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War" - https://amzn.to/3UXPTvC

As a bonus, you might be interested in Noam Chomsky's "The Manufacturing of Consent." - https://amzn.to/3O4wp6j

Chomsky's book is a disappointment in most respects, but it is on topic, and at least does have a good number of interesting anecdotes.