Interesting history lesson. Thanks.
Bernays was the nephew of Sigmund Freud. I’m actually torn on whether to consider him evil but reading some of what he wrote makes it hard to see him any other way. He was a manipulator and the chief propagandist of the Creel Committee under Wilson. (George Creel was a journalist) The committee propagandized us into WWI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Information
Creel was a true progressive scumbag. Don’t be fooled by the fact that he was an anti communist, so was Hitler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Creel