The 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto are a compilation of steps to obtain a mass formed society. I wrote this for Media Bypass back in 2004. Unfortunately the main link went screwy so I mirrored it in an archive at my car repair site... A few other sites used my information but altered it enough to avoid making it obvious that they took it from me. https://bornagainclassics.com/Books/TenPlanksoftheCommunistManifesto-American-Style.shtml
Edward Bernays was an American business consultant who is widely regarded as having created the modern profession of public relations with his groundbreaking campaigns of the 1920s. Bernays attained clients among major corporations and became known for boosting their business by causing changes in public opinion.
Advertising was already commonplace by the early 20th century. But what Bernays did with his campaigns was significantly different, as he didn't openly seek to promote a particular product the way a typical ad campaign would. Instead, when hired by a company, Bernays would set out to change the opinions of the general public, creating demand which would indirectly boost the fortunes of a particular product.
Don't worry about Desmet's book; it's not worth the paper it's printed on. It's the proverbial academic gimmick, but it's also full of inverted logic and logical fallacies.
It's usually crooks or morons who use the word "society." The two don't exclude one another. :) Desmet is definitely manipulative, so he is not a complete moron.
Much of WW2 is alive as myths. I wonder how many people know how many German soldiers vs. civilians died in WW2, how many died later in the Allies' concentration camps (Montgomery refused to participate), who started WW2, or what General Patton's thoughts were about it all (after his comments, he died under suspicious circumstances in 1945).
There is no such thing as "mass formation," because the term implies an automatic process, whereas it requires conscious manipulation by its initiators that usually follow the same method:
People are even worse than that... Do you know which public events have always had the largest audience? Public executions... Now, how sick is that?...
There was no reversal of Roe v Wade, despite the published arguments. The clowns on the Supreme Court simply passed the hot potato to state legislations. I wish they did the same about federal taxes or financing and participating in foreign wars... But politicians are usually the global bankers' henchment (just look at Canada next door or Oz or the Kiwis)...
Yours is a more (self-) empowering view than the mass formation one.
You have throw a bone to the dog... Either way, it remains a dog...
The 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto are a compilation of steps to obtain a mass formed society. I wrote this for Media Bypass back in 2004. Unfortunately the main link went screwy so I mirrored it in an archive at my car repair site... A few other sites used my information but altered it enough to avoid making it obvious that they took it from me. https://bornagainclassics.com/Books/TenPlanksoftheCommunistManifesto-American-Style.shtml
I never knew that was Stalin's maxim, it makes a lot sense.
Well not to put a fine point on this but advertising has mass formed us and transformed us for 100 years.
By Robert McNamara---(yo were you in that AmEx ad like Gorby?)
Published on April 30, 2019 https://www.thoughtco.com/edward-bernays-4685459
Edward Bernays was an American business consultant who is widely regarded as having created the modern profession of public relations with his groundbreaking campaigns of the 1920s. Bernays attained clients among major corporations and became known for boosting their business by causing changes in public opinion.
Advertising was already commonplace by the early 20th century. But what Bernays did with his campaigns was significantly different, as he didn't openly seek to promote a particular product the way a typical ad campaign would. Instead, when hired by a company, Bernays would set out to change the opinions of the general public, creating demand which would indirectly boost the fortunes of a particular product.
Don't worry about Desmet's book; it's not worth the paper it's printed on. It's the proverbial academic gimmick, but it's also full of inverted logic and logical fallacies.
It's usually crooks or morons who use the word "society." The two don't exclude one another. :) Desmet is definitely manipulative, so he is not a complete moron.
Much of WW2 is alive as myths. I wonder how many people know how many German soldiers vs. civilians died in WW2, how many died later in the Allies' concentration camps (Montgomery refused to participate), who started WW2, or what General Patton's thoughts were about it all (after his comments, he died under suspicious circumstances in 1945).
There is no such thing as "mass formation," because the term implies an automatic process, whereas it requires conscious manipulation by its initiators that usually follow the same method:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-most-powerful-mode-of-manipulation
People are even worse than that... Do you know which public events have always had the largest audience? Public executions... Now, how sick is that?...
There was no reversal of Roe v Wade, despite the published arguments. The clowns on the Supreme Court simply passed the hot potato to state legislations. I wish they did the same about federal taxes or financing and participating in foreign wars... But politicians are usually the global bankers' henchment (just look at Canada next door or Oz or the Kiwis)...