When the double nephew of Sigmund Freud , Edward Bernays, said that people must be manipulated in their thinking from above, which is how the Creel Commission convinced Americans to hate Germans as much in 1914 as many Americans hate Muslims today, he was simply articulating the very same thinking held by Catholics and Muslims for thousands of years.
The only difference, of course, is that Catholics and Muslims think people should have their thinking manipulated by a God above, and his holy "church" (who's laws, they argue, are all clearly written down in the bloodiest book humanity has ever written, let alone venerated, even though none of them agree on what it says), while Bernays was essentially saying that if it is acceptable to people that their minds should be manipulable by God, then they should consent to having it similarly manipulated by Government, since governments are simply the latest fashionable forms of monarchies. And both monarchies and authoritative governments have always been defended by Popes as deriving their power directly from God, much like the Popes themselves.
And yet those who work to spread the message of their church deny that they are engaging in the very same kind of "propaganda" they everywhere suspect of their governments, even though the latter is simply following the leader.
The only difference, of course, is that Catholics and Muslims think people should have their thinking manipulated by a God above, and his holy "church" (who's laws, they argue, are all clearly written down in the bloodiest book humanity has ever written, let alone venerated, even though none of them agree on what it says), while Bernays was essentially saying that if it is acceptable to people that their minds should be manipulable by God, then they should consent to having it similarly manipulated by Government, since governments are simply the latest fashionable forms of monarchies. And both monarchies and authoritative governments have always been defended by Popes as deriving their power directly from God, much like the Popes themselves.
And yet those who work to spread the message of their church deny that they are engaging in the very same kind of "propaganda" they everywhere suspect of their governments, even though the latter is simply following the leader.
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