This is a page straight out of Edward Bernays‘ playbook. He made “alliances” to push every agenda he was paid to support. His best-known campaign was a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist "Torches of Freedom".
He described the masses as irrational and subject to herd instinct—and outlined how skilled practitioners could use crowd psychology and psychoanalysis to control them in desirable ways.
Until we recognize these tricks easily, they will keep using them on everyone.
This is a page straight out of Edward Bernays‘ playbook. He made “alliances” to push every agenda he was paid to support. His best-known campaign was a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist "Torches of Freedom".
He described the masses as irrational and subject to herd instinct—and outlined how skilled practitioners could use crowd psychology and psychoanalysis to control them in desirable ways.
Until we recognize these tricks easily, they will keep using them on everyone.