The DARK SECRET Corporations Don’t Want You To Know (and propaganda that create this world of the naive)

This is the real world about which most people don’t know about, the world about which we are not taught in school.

Edward Bernays on Propaganda:

“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.” — Edward Bernays, Propaganda

Edward Bernays created the concept of “public relations,” which is now used to transform BP (British Petroleum) into the current BP (Beyond Petroleum). Bernays’ public relations techniques are now used to create our current woke world, which is all a hoax.

Introduction to Propaganda:

Watch this video to learn more: Introduction to Propaganda.

We are not taught real history or how the real world works. The American historian Howard Zinn wrote:

Howard Zinn on Society’s Control:

“If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.” — Howard Zinn

Jacques Ellul on Propaganda’s Effect:

Jacques Ellul provided a chilling description of the individual whose personality has been thoroughly molded by propaganda:

“When he recites his propaganda lesson and says that he is thinking for himself, when his eyes see nothing and his mouth only produces sounds previously stenciled into his brain, when he says that he is indeed expressing his judgment – then he really demonstrates that he no longer thinks at all, ever, and that he does not exist as a person.” — Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes

How many people in the West are not persons in the sense described by Jacques Ellul? A large part of society “sees nothing and their mouths only produce sounds previously stenciled into their brains.” The COVID pandemic partially answers this question. These are all consequences of our education and conditioning; we are taught in schools to listen, believe and obey, not to learn and understand.

Why Public Schools and the Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down:

Watch this video for more insights: Why Public Schools and the Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down.

John Taylor Gatto on Schooling:

“Schools are intended to produce formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled. To a very great extent, schools succeed in doing this, but in a national order in which the only ‘successful’ people are independent, self-reliant, confident, and individualistic, the products of schooling are irrelevant. Well-schooled people are irrelevant. They can sell film and razor blades, push paper and talk on telephones, or sit mindlessly before a flickering computer terminal, but as human beings they are useless. Useless to others and useless to themselves.” — John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down

To become someone in this messed-up, fake world created by propaganda, you need to obey and not question things. This world is full of people who know very little, not by mistake or accident, but by design.

Instead of catching and imprisoning people, they have captured our attention and imprisoned our minds.

How New Addictions Are Destroying Us:

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Mitchell Kapor predicted in a 1993 Wired article about the internet that:

“We could wind up with networks that have the principal effect of fostering addiction to a new generation of electronic narcotics (glitzy, interactive multimedia successors to Nintendo and MTV); their principal themes revolving around instant gratification through sex, violence, or sexual violence; their uses and content determined by mega-corporations pushing mindless consumption of things we don’t need and aren’t good for us.”

Philosopher James Williams proposes a thought experiment:

“How would you design a society as weak-willed as possible? It would, he says, deliver an ‘endless supply of informational rewards on demand’ – whether that’s outrage headlines or cute cat photos – and what’s worrying is that those informational rewards become more and more personalized to suit your particular weaknesses.”

Professor of Psychiatry David Greenfield, who founded the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction, says that the internet “amplifies the intoxicating impact of stimulating content via the efficient delivery mechanism into our nervous system.” He describes the internet, with its variable rewards, beeps, buzzes, colors, flashes, animations, and notifications, as the “world’s largest slot machine.”

How Big Tech is Ruining Your Attention:

Watch this video to learn more: How Big Tech is Ruining Your Attention.

CBS executive Frank Arnold once said:

“Here you have the advertiser’s ideal—the family group in its moments of relaxation awaiting your message. Nothing equal to this has ever been dreamed of by the advertising man.”

William James, the Father of Psychology in America, wrote about the importance of attention in 1890. He said attention is:

“Taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought; localization, concentration, of consciousness are of its essence.”

It also implies “withdrawal” from some things to concentrate on others. Attention, in short, is focus.

Ethicist James Williams writes that:

“We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like ‘annoying’ or ‘distracting.’ But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and keep us from living the lives we want to live, or, even worse, undermine our capacities for reflection and self-regulation, making it harder to ‘want what we want to want.’ Thus, there are deep ethical implications lurking here for freedom, wellbeing, and even the integrity of the self.”

Williams points out in his book, Stand Out of Our Light, that technology should function like a GPS for our goals – guiding us, showing us the latest information on our interests, keeping us updated with what’s important. But imagine if our real GPS took us down wrong paths instead of to our destination – to a sale at a department store rather than to Grandma’s.

Our GPS, mainstream media, and propaganda, instead of guiding us to our better world, guide us to sales at a department store, the end of the world, and world war.