Posted on 06/15/2015 10:23:41 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
Nearly 100 years ago, Walter Lippmann wrote about “the manufacture of consent” in his classic work, “Public Opinion.” On the heels of that book, Edward Bernays penned a little volume called “Propaganda,” in which he stated that an elite would always be responsible for making the public aware of “new ideas” which the public would then act upon as the elite nudged them into it. Related, but more in-depth is Jacques Ellul’s 1962 book, “Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
So much about this is everything that I blog about, and it is why I am so focused on the early 20th century progressives.
All roads lead back to 100 years ago.
Any reason you can’t post the entire thing here or are you just primping your blog?
Stella is very ingenious to direct all conservatives to look into this book. She opens the article with it.
My contribution is that I recorded the entirety of the book, and put it out for free on the internet to be consumed and studied. It is not a waste of time for conservatives to start to understand these people.
The Federalist is not my blog.
The Progressive Movement gave us the 16th, 17th, and 18th Amendments (1 repealed, 2 to go). It also showed a disdain for free speech, except when it was Progressives’ free speech. It planted the seeds for the Liberal crap we’ve suffered under for a century. Liberals/Progressives need to be fought, not debated. Debating with a Liberal/Progressive has as much value as would debating with someone from ISIS.
A bit further... try the garden of Eden
But it is self evident to any rational person... its like being sane person in an insane asylum...
I like to say the state and media has reached the 2+2=5 moment and I'm shock to see so many go along...
the deliberate breaking down of reality in society by the political forces of the left ....the destruction of self evident reason...IE 2+2=5. brainwashing the masses to the whim of tyrants
We are very nearly at that point.
People need to be educated about the fact that Progressivism is totally Deconstructionist. It tears down anything it can get it hands on with the empty promise of something better.
They also need to understand that Progressives have no actual principles. They only have goals. They are predatory to their core.
The Progressive project called Jonestown gives many insights into the nature of American-style collectivism.
Jonestown was both a foreshadowing and an aspirational pilot project.
The cult of the State ends in societal death, every time.
Free Speech Is the Only Antidote to Mass Delusion
Yes - but actually, it is insufficient in the age of mass communications. We need, we must have,a free pressfree and independent presses.In fact, SCOTUS is wrong in calling money “speech.” Talk is cheap - it is printing presses, ink, and paper which cost money. And don’t question the connection between freedom of the literal printing press of the founding era and freedom of the Internet and cable - yes, and over-the-airwaves broadcast - of today.
Article 1 Section 8.implies that the framers anticipated that printing press would be improved upon.The Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . . .
Amendment 9 -This directly rebuts the notion that the First Amendment is a ceiling over our liberties - it is intended only as floor beneath them. The framers did provide a means of adjusting the unregulated advance of technology on the press, but it would be really hard to get an amendment to the First Amendment ratified.The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The reason we are troubled by “the media” is simple; Adam Smith condemned the source of the problem three generations before it arose:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public - Adam Smith, Wealth of NationsWire service journalism originated in 1848 with the founding of the New York Associated Press - soon renamed simply, “the Associated Press.” The members of the AP - any and all wire services are the same - are in a continual virtual meeting of “people of the same trade.” The AP newswire has been going for well over a century and a half, and the inevitable “conspiracy against the public” arose before it was a half a century old.The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral SentimentsThat motive operates on all journalists; it is their reason for existence. Thus they make the absurd claim of their own objectivity based on their mutual-admiration-society AP membership.The effect is that journalists are free to promote the idea which is the exact opposite of Theodore Roosevelt’s famous dictum, “It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . .” And what is the most pithy expression of the opposite of that dictum? Elizabeth Warren announced it, and Obama and Hillary! echo it:
You didn’t build that.Which is obviously cynicism - and socialist dogma.
Article reads...”Political propaganda aims to mobilize the masses to move an agenda forward... That’s most effectively done ‘when the masses are unaware of the process’.... It’s what “community organizers” work towards, whether they know it or not...... Once the masses are mobilized to push for a cause, the propagandists’ goals can be put into law.”....
It’s now wonder they use the word “Forward” so often...and call themselves Progressives!
Good post, and a bump! This is an incredibly important topic.
In the article, she says humor can defeat them. Ridicule. That is why today’s comedians are not funny—just mean. Real humor is not allowed as it skewers progressives.
Article reads.....”Transgenderism is now eclipsing that notion, and its propaganda techniques—wrapped in the language of civil rights—are getting Americans on board with the idea of erasing all sex distinctions in law, including their own........ It’s as though Americans are buying into a fast-talking sales pitch without being allowed to read the print, whether it’s large print or small.”......
We do this pretty much with everything.....then they yell ‘the sky is falling’...fear and anxiety quickly follow. So rather than actually use the time to debate and discuss there’s a mass effort wasted just in calming down the people to “think” rather than react.
Meanwhile “times out” they shove it through and people scratch their heads wondering why things happen as they do.
Yes, I have. Thank you for mentioning it and providing the link. I hope others will watch it.
I wrote about Century of the Self on May 3, 2013.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3015329/posts
None of which are on the shopping list for that money. Political spending is all about mass media buys.
America is bewitched...
Are mulattoes black or white?.... or neither?..
Is being “black” the new baseball bat in polite intercourse?..
Is black culture toxic, poisonous, bazaar, a toilet.?.
Are blacks aborting their children at a higher rate than other races?..
Why are mulattoes generally “nastier” than the 100% blacks?..
Is WHITE a color?..
Gramsci ping (even though he isn’t specifically mentioned in the article).
My first question when I see a “black” on TV, movies, internet, some publication... (( IS ))....
Are they a mulatto?.. PimPing blackness vs. whiteness(some other race)?
Very hard to find a mulatto pimping whiteness...
Why is that?..
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