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It's Bastille Day. Peter Thiel (PayPal, Facebook, Palantir, Airbnb, Lyft, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX), notes that Google, which builds what is called "dopaminergic" (pleasure-rewarding) addiction into its user experience, has thrown in its Artificial Intelligence cognitive-weaponry development, with Red China, against Red-White-&-Blue USA. Google is a traitor. Google has merely rendered the high development of mass opinion engineering into computer algorithms that operate seamlessly behind the scenes. For the past century, cognitive psychologists have figured out how to control extremely massive numbers of people using sophisticated mass psychology manipulation techniques. Edward Bernays was like George Soros (touring the death camps...

In the 1960s, I came across a small training manual distributed by the Communist Party that showed how a small group of people – as few as four – could dominate a much larger group and sway the outcome of any action taken by that group. It was called the Diamond Technique. The principle is based on the fact that people in groups tend to be effected by mass psychology. They derive comfort and security from being aligned with the majority, especially if controversy or conflict is involved. Even if they do not like what the majority is doing, if...

It’s the animal spirits baby… For over 100 years, Americans have been covertly manipulated by design in large part thanks to Edward Bernays, the modern father of propaganda. The Father of Spin viewed humans as little more than animals with instincts that they could not control, so Bernays set out to control them for the masses and to use them to his advantage and agenda, ruled by an elite minority of course. Society was ‘irrational’ and ‘dangerous’ due to their ‘herd instinct’ and as an elitist, Bernays used the art of public relations to utilize their instincts to better the...

Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty. To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?...... The Century Of Self - "Happiness...

If you want to understand the way prescription drugs are marketed today, have a look at the 1928 book, "Propaganda," by Edward Bernays, the father of public relations in America. (See my breakdown, below)