I took a break from work to engage in some conversation....
The last history book i read as "PR! The Social History of Spin"the guy who fatheed PR as a field was Freud's nephew and was admired by Goebbels the propaganda minister cuz he wrote a book called "the crystallization of consent"me: I really like stuff on the Nazis and the Germans between WW1 and WW2Sent at 3:52 PM on Monday
Jozsef: Edward Bernays... among his other contributions is getting women to smoke, convincing people that black top everywhere would be good and i think helping to topple a south American government in addition to being at the treaty of Versailles and coming up with propaganda for Wilson
me: Germans give you less personal space then us in the US. Very interesting people. So gifted yet so scary at the same time Sent at 3:53 PM on Monday
me: Crystallization of Consent? Sounds real interesting. What is the name of the Author?? Well I suppose I could "Google" the book and just buy on Amazon. I have to save money so reading will be good.Sent at 3:55 PM on Monday
Jozsef: edward burnays... Sigmund frueds nephew... among other things he was regarded as psychotherapit for corporations... hed be called in to he them with their images etcme: I ought to get that book Sent at 3:57 PM on Monday
Jozsef: The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.me: Wow..thats pretty deep....
Jozsef: The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.me: Wow..thats pretty deep....
Jozsef: his quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernaysme: Pretty pithy my friend Cool will check it out.Sent at 3:59 PM on MondayJozsef: this may be interestinghttp://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=amrlm&fileName=me20page.db&recNum=1&itemLink=r?ammem/coolbib:@field%28TITLE+@od1%28Edward+L+Bernays+Papers+++Are+We+Victims+of+Propaganda?+A+Debate++Everett+Dean+Martin+and+Edward+L++Bernays+%29%29a debate between him and some other dude in the 20s "ae we victims of propaganda"from a magazine back in the day propaganda was an acceptable term prior to the nazis and used descriptively more often wiout negative connotations quote
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