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In
order for we African Americans to overcome the profound feelings
of hopelessness, confusion, and self hatred that still
overwhelmingly plagues millions within our communities, we must
synergized our energies and efforts towards countering the effects
of the United State’s ongoing governmental
mass media psychosocial treatment of us that
is deliberately designed to render such disunity and confusion
among our race as a means of ensuring that its white dominance and
control is maintained. This immense and ongoing psychological
manipulation campaign is based upon the works of renowned
psychologist
Dr. Edward Bernays.
Dr.
Edward Bernay’s was a nephew of Sigmund Freud and one of the
most skillful experts in mass manipulation. He invented
the modern day Madison Avenue advertising Agencies by using his
Uncle Sigmund's knowledge of the human psyche to make people feel
they needed whatever product was being advertised. Edward Bernays
also invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was
the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses.
Bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of
mass-consumer persuasion. He showed American corporations how they
could make people want things they didn't need by systematically
linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.
His
most notorious feat was breaking the taboo on women smoking by
persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and
freedom. Bernays was convinced that this mass method of
manipulation was more than just a way of selling consumer goods.
For him it was a new political idea of how to control the masses.
By satisfying the inner irrational desires that his uncle, Sigmund
Freud, had
identified, people could be made happy, docile, angry, self hating
or even confused.
During
World War I, Bernays and journalist Walter Lippman were hired by
then United States President, Woodrow Wilson, to participate in
the Creel Commission, the mission of which was to sway popular
opinion in favor of entering the war, on the side of Britain. The
war propaganda campaign of Bernays and Lippman produced such an
intense anti-German hysteria as to permanently impress America’s
governmental elites with the potential of large-scale propaganda
to control public opinion. Edward Bernays advised US presidents
from Woodrow Wilson to Eisenhower and served numerous corporations
and business associations. This was the
start of the mass media and governmental psychological
manipulation programs which has come to covertly dominate today's
world. One of Bernays biggest fans was Hitler's propaganda
chief, Joseph Goebbels, a fact about which Bernays bragged
proudly. A common pattern used repeatedly by Bernays was to
turn a harmless entity into a fearsome enemy through lies and
manufactured news items. Then use the "threat" to
justify attacking the entity.. Edward Bernays coined the terms
"group mind" and "engineering consent",
important concepts in practical propaganda work. Bernays said in
his 1928 book Propaganda, that; "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. He further states that; “If
we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is
now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our
will without them knowing it” The current public
relations industry is a direct outgrowth of Bernays' work and his
method of mass psychological manipulation is also still currently
used by the United States government.
The
U.S. Government has an extensive history of conducting planned
campaigns of extensive strategic psychological operations [based
upon the works of Benays] through the national media to influence
and direct the perception and climate of the nation towards its
governmental objectives. Given that the nineteen sixties were a
period of massive black rebellion and unrest that eroded the
American global image and increasingly placed the nation’s
peace and stability in dire jeopardy and perhaps most particularly
because the nations top sociologist and psychologist knew that
those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable. This quite logically necessitated that the
U.S. Government employ these same proven methods of mass
psychological manipulation against its entire African American
population.
The
U.S.. Government now secretly deliberately disseminates false
deplorably racially devaluing statistics and propaganda about its
Black population that are deliberately designed to adversely
manipulate and shape the minds and collective consciousness of its
African American population-- corrupting African Americans sense
of unity, cohesion, and reason-- and fostering a consensual
national environment of where in which its Black population
is more easily divided, exploited and ultimately suppressed.
When
most people hear the term of psychological manipulation they
usually think in terms of the classic "conspiracy theory"
that refers to overt mind control such as mind altering drugs with
carefully hypnotic programming. However, the real and true dangers
are Bernays well proven methods of affecting the unconscious mind
by using deception, and psychological manipulation.
It
is neither magical nor mystical, but a process that involves a set
of basic social psychological principles. The
constant relentless bombardment with deplorably negative images of
themselves that of which African Americans are so inundated with,
through a white
controlled media,
is a very carefully and deliberately designed psychological
conditioning program. Its unrelenting daily assault on the Black
psyche is
designed
to corrupt
African Americans’ sense of racial unity and cohesion,
mold the character of self-hatred,
engender self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their
group. And while insinuating that Blacks admire,
respect, and trust only Whites.
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