By Ashley Hayes
I think it is very telling that I just spent nearly two hours working on this article, re-saving it as I went along because my work is often remotely deleted by those who do not want others to hear my voice, online or otherwise, only to have all of the versions, including its history on my computer, instantly deleted. (Think of the effort involved in that.)
So here I go again . . .
The video below was widely shared several years ago, but I think it is vital to share it again, to illustrate not only the use of propaganda to manipulate the minds of Americans, but how a very small group of individuals controls it all, controlling the messaging to us all:
As you watch, notice the mass-repeated catchphrase created by a government propagandist: “a threat to our democracy.” And understand that ANYTIME you hear the phrase “a threat to our democracy,” it’s really a slap in your face because, unbeknownst to most Americans, we’ve never actually had a democracy. Thanks to government propagandists including, and especially, Edward Bernays, “democracy” was long ago redefined to mean “rule over all by a few.” They just didn’t bother to tell the rest of us.
Edward Bernays, known as the “father of propaganda,” served on President Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information which not only convinced Americans to give of their time and money under false pretenses, but which convinced men to lay down their very lives. All for bankers (and clients of Bernays’). Realizing the extraordinary power he now possessed to exert mass mind control, combining the power of his words with the access he had to all forms of media, he quickly realized these skills could be put to good use for his clients in big business. And they were: he used his wordsmith skills to convince municipalities to flouridate their water, to enrich his client, ALCOA, despite the fact that flouride had been proven to be toxic; he convinced women to start smoking by staging a fake “protest” and rebranding toxic cigarettes — which gave his wife lung cancer — “torches of freedom” to enrich his client, American Tobacco Company; he convinced thousands of stores, magazines, newspapers and more to promote the color green so that women would come to love it, and thereby be more encouraged to purchase his client’s Lucky Strike cigarettes, whose green packaging was a turn-off (because, apparently, one’s cigarette pack must not clash with one’s outfit); and on and on.
“P.R. Counsel” (aka propagandist) to multiple presidents, Bernays dubbed his mass mind control abilities “the engineering of consent,” utilizing methods he had learned from his famous uncle, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, to appeal not to the rational part of the mind, but to the subconscious. He thoroughly understood the power of symbols, endlessly-repeated messages, catch-phrases, how to use celebrities to promote one’s product, how to use doctors in white coats to promote something he wanted people to believe was good for their health (even when it definitely was not), and on and on. He and his clients thrived on their combined ability to “control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it.”
Learning about Edward Bernays, and his control over the destinies of millions of individuals, was like waking up and realizing you’re in the middle of a bad dream. Unfortunately, Bernays lived to 103, so he was able to poison our world — literally and figuratively — in ways few others have been able to do. However, the few others who have been able to do so, are doing so on an even larger scale, thanks to the digitized world they’ve helped create, and their ownership of the media. (Plandemic anyone?)
The “Edward Bernayses” of today, whose goal is also mass mind control — and mass control of the population, in general — not only have access to all mainstream media, but media-in-an-instant. They can create — or have AI create — whatever message they desire (and it’s typically one of fear, of lost hope, or something meant to create distress — because if you’re fearful, you’re more controllable) and instantly have it appear on the news, on social media, on the radio, on a commercial (which can now be produced in just minutes) and more. It is a type of power nearly unfathomable. And it’s a type of power that’s extraordinarily dangerous.
Included in my previous article, Outfoxed by Propaganda: Part One, was the Fox News documentary, “Outfoxed.” I wanted to include it here again, particularly because it is an election year, and its messaging is more on-point than ever. Please watch and share: https://rumble.com/v4htyqb-outfoxed-vintage-mockingbird-media-documentary-2004.html
Knowledge is vital. Share what you know.
Sources & Links:
https://rumble.com/v1pxivh-meet-edward-bernays-master-of-propaganda.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44779771
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-woodrow-wilsons-propaganda-machine-changed-american-journalism-180963082/
https://www.unitedfruitcompany.com/biographies/the-life-of-edward-l-bernays-the-father-of-public-relations
https://www.lkarno.com/post/2018/03/22/edward-l-bernays-and-selling-tobacco-with-a-grand-green-ball
https://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-mind-edward-bernays-and-the-birth-of-public-relations-44393
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/the-great-war-master-of-american-propaganda/
Ashley Hayes is a former business entrepreneur, patented inventor, researcher, and writer seeking to bring attention to the clearly-organized crimes of unlawful and corrupt law enforcement and fusion center personnel against innocent Americans and citizens worldwide, as well as crimes committed by military contractors via 21st-century technology, and to the pandemic of child trafficking by those in power.
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