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Propaganda and controlling the masses

September 22, 2009

A while back I came across a documentary about Edward Bernays, the late cousin of Sigmund Freud. From wikipedia: Edward Louis Bernays was a US pioneer in the field of public relations along with Ivy Lee. Combining the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his [...]