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Vox is obviously new on the block. That's been going on for a century, ever since WW1 when Ed Bernays worked for the Committee on Public Information (CPI) and
by 8bitsrule 7y ago
Vox is obviously new on the block. That's been going on for a century, ever since WW1 when Ed Bernays worked for the Committee on Public Information (CPI) and learned how to get people to line up.
http://igpub.com/propaganda/ http://igpub.com/propaganda/
In 1928 he wrote, "If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it?" (Propaganda, page 10)
At about the same time he was helping out Lucky Strike by convincing more women to smoke cigarettes.
- natmaka 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engineering_of_Consent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engineering_of_Consent Gustave Le Bon was a precursor. Those are generic tool/approaches, used by capitalists (not all of them) and also by non-capitalists (not all of them)