“since the days of Edward Bernays and Freud, as the most powerful way of controlling action in the real world. Because if you cannot perceive of there being a valid way of doing things other than what you’re told is the right way, then that’s obviously the supreme power that you can have.”
From your link.
Bernays was Freud’s nephew. His essay, “The Engineering of Consent.” These people have been doing just that. Controlling minds.
But times are changing.
Goebbels learned all about propaganda from Bernays.