Life is Short
by Not Sure
9 July 2023
In 1928, Edward
L. Bernays wrote his definitive handbook of the field that would come to be
known as Public Relations. The book was
entitled Propaganda. He had
already published Crystalizing Public Opinion in 1923. During World War I, Bernays worked for the
U.S. Committee on Public Information which is often referred to as the Creel
Committee. He was sent to Paris after
the war to promote the post-war peace talks and President Wilson’s plan to
establish a League of Nations. He was
the nephew of Sigmund Freud, and he constantly reminded people of that fact; he
characterized himself often and un-subtly as someone with a special
understanding of how people think.
I don’t know
what oaths he swore or to which clubs he belonged, but the first chapter of Propaganda
is entitled “Organizing Chaos.” The
motto of 33rd degree Freemasons is Ordo ab Chao, a Latin
phrase which translates as “order from chaos.”
The phrase is associated with another Latin phrase Lux in Tenebris, or “light from darkness.” According to the Freemasons Community
website, “Freemasons often question the
relationships that underpin the creation of the human experience…For Masons, as
chaos ensues, old orders are broken down to allow new ones to emerge and
replace them. Like Ying and Yang, and death and rebirth, order and chaos follow
on from one another in an ever-renewing cycle of creation and evolution.” It would be more truthful to say, “creation
and REVOLUTION.”
What we can observe is that Masons
and other societies with secrets do not wait for chaos to ensue, but actively
participate in breaking down old orders to make way for the new.
Here are just a handful of Bernays’
“accomplishments”:
·
Made smoking in
public socially acceptable for women.
·
Convinced
Americans who were concerned about the over-consumption of alcoholic beverages
that beer was the “beverage of moderation.”
·
Engineered a coup
against Guatemala’s president Jacobo Arbenz, whose
agrarian reforms would have taken land from U.S. agribusiness (United Fruit
Company) and returned it to the Guatemalan people. Bernays ran a campaign to brand Arbenz as a
communist. He organized trips to
Guatemala for reporters which always coincided with violent protests which he
also had a hand in organizing. This
“public relations” campaign ended successfully for the United Fruit Company
when President Eisenhower authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to
undertake a covert operation to overthrow Arbenz.
·
Convinced
Americans that fluoride was safe and beneficial for their health, which allowed
the aluminum industry to send their waste to Americans drinking water and
toothpaste.
·
Promoted national
health insurance.
From Propaganda, Chapter One,
“Organizing Chaos”:
“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…Whatever attitude one chooses to take toward this condition, it
remains a fact that 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—a trifling fraction
of our hundred and twenty million—who understand the mental processes and
social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control
the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind
and guide the world.”
In this first chapter, Bernays wrote
about the ways group ideas are generated and transmitted. “But to-day, because ideas can be
instantaneously transmitted to any distance and to any number of people, this
geographical integration has been supplemented by many other kinds of grouping,
so that persons having the same ideas and interests may be associated and
regimented for common action even though they live thousands of miles apart.” He gave examples of the different types of
groups and affiliations that can be used to shape the opinions of the
masses. He laid out a simple formula that
is now used by “influencers” on social media.
He approached society matrons and the pretty and affluent women of 1929
and asked them to smoke in public. Suffragism
was in the air. Smoking publicly struck
another blow for women’s rights in the battle of the sexes. Actresses were shown smoking in the movies,
often after the “implied” sex scene.
Soon women around the world smoked in broad daylight.
Now, this year’s “it” girl puckers
collagen lips and discusses her latest plastic surgery, posing in clothing that
serves no purpose, if the purpose of clothing is modesty and protection from
the elements. Perhaps she talks about
her latest conquest in the bedroom (or bathroom, or backseat.) Maybe she thanks “God” when she wins an
award, because God preferred that naked rapper over the competition,
right? Look at how many “views” this
influencer has. Clearly, she is being
used to shape the opinions and behavior of the masses.
There’s the news anchor with the
right stuff who “feels the pain” of his audience. He appears to take on every evil,
unflinchingly. A pied piper who keeps us
yelling at the television screen. Night
after night, he “tackles” election fraud and “deep State” corruption; his
solution to vote for the “other” candidate.
In this unnatural world, addictions are
battled and succumbed to, marriages dissolve, lives are shattered and finally,
answers are sought. People head to
church. Let’s just take Christian
churches as an example. What does
“Christian” mean anymore? The word is as
plastic and empty as “democracy.” Is
your pastor preaching the prosperity gospel?
You know, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Prosperity. God wants you to “name it and claim it.” God’s a bit like Santa Claus, with toys for
believers. Or is your preacher woke? Are you getting
the Bible Books of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
from the pulpit? Does your priest or
pastor want you to steward the Earth because that’s what Jesus would do? Climate Warriors for Christ.
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In this Redux from May 5, 2019, Alan
Watt delivers a thought-provoking narrative through the history of money, programming
by fiction and the resultant societies that have no recognition of the harsh
realities of nature, which is cruel. The
process of dying and the finality of death are removed. Families no longer care for each other in
those final days. Deep thinking that can
only occur when one’s own mortality is faced, is no longer even possible. Churches are for children. Maturity is avoided at all costs. People who can only be described as evil, consciously,
and intelligently manipulate our minds.
©
Not Sure
Short-Term
Memory:
"Because Our Lives are Short and Agendas are Damning,
Our Masters Hide Evidence
within Long-Term Planning."
© Alan
Watt May 5, 2019