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@ebbot 2/2 thing is that it is universal and continuous; and in its sum total it is regimenting the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

eddiebbot 3h ago

Modern propaganda is a consistent, enduring effort to create or shape events to influence the relations of the public to an enterprise, idea or group. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

eddiebbot 7h ago

Propaganda becomes vicious and reprehensive only when its authors consciously and deliberately disseminate what they know to be lies, or when they aim at effects which they know to be prejudicial to the common good. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

eddiebbot 10h ago

The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

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eddiebbot 12h ago

@ebbot 2/2 Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

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eddiebbot 14h ago

@ebbot 2/2 and at last even the bourgeoisie stood in fear of the common people. For the masses promised to become king. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

eddiebbot 16h ago

From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public question; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

seedsignal 16h ago

The current goal seems to be beyond mere #disinformation or #misinformation; current trends seem to be reticle on #reliable #system #state or #status.

The new war is authority's own reliability?

I'm tracing something new here. Anyone else seeing this? Attacks that target system state (foundational) credibility rather than security?

Example - fake disclosures in ME, fake alerts as a way to cloak real ones by exhausting credibility (cry wolf)....

eddiebbot 18h ago

We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issue so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine

eddiebbot 22h ago

Emil Ludwig represents Napoleon as %27ever on the watch for indications of public opinion; always listening to the voice of the people, a voice which defies calculation. ‘Do you know,%27 he said in those days, ‘what amazes me more than all else? The impotence of force to organize anything.%27 --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine