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Die Logik des Digitalen
Es zählt, was sich zählen lässt!

Quantität ist das zentrale Qualitätskriterium unserer Zeit. In sozialen Netzwerken ist es die Anzahl der Freunde, Follower, Views, Likes und Shares, die Erfolg und Status bestimmt. Klicks entscheiden über Sichtbarkeit in der digitalen Welt.

#ryf #privacy #demokratie #freiheit #EdwardBernays

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/es-zaehlt-was-sich-zaehlen-laesst-100.html

@pino @bruces
“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
― Edward Bernays

#EdwardBernays
#doomed

@Barbramon1 @dangillmor @TheAtlantic
I would argue programmed. It's not like any of this just appeared out of the woodwork. Killing a democracy takes time, takes effort, takes a bit of genius and a bit of research. This has been going on for some time...none of this is an accident.
#EdwardBernays #illusionarytrutheffect #propaganda #darkmoney #doomed #deadjournalists
(art by @jzikah)

@Barbramon1 @dangillmor @TheAtlantic
I would argue programmed. It's not like any of this just appeared out of the woodwork. Killing a democracy takes time, takes effort, takes a bit of genius and a bit of research. This has been going on for some time...none of this is an accident.
#EdwardBernays #illusionarytrutheffect #propaganda #darkmoney #doomed #deadjournalists
(art by @jzikah)

@Barbramon1 @dangillmor @TheAtlantic
I would argue programmed. It's not like any of this just appeared out of the woodwork. Killing a democracy takes time, takes effort, takes a bit of genius and a bit of research. This has been going on for some time...none of this is an accident.
#EdwardBernays #illusionarytrutheffect #propaganda #darkmoney #doomed #deadjournalists
(art by @jzikah)

@Barbramon1 @dangillmor @TheAtlantic
I would argue programmed. It's not like any of this just appeared out of the woodwork. Killing a democracy takes time, takes effort, takes a bit of genius and a bit of research. This has been going on for some time...none of this is an accident.
#EdwardBernays #illusionarytrutheffect #propaganda #darkmoney #doomed #deadjournalists
(art by @jzikah)

@Barbramon1 @dangillmor @TheAtlantic
I would argue programmed. It's not like any of this just appeared out of the woodwork. Killing a democracy takes time, takes effort, takes a bit of genius and a bit of research. This has been going on for some time...none of this is an accident.
#EdwardBernays #illusionarytrutheffect #propaganda #darkmoney #doomed #deadjournalists
(art by @jzikah)

@gdsherif @jordinn
"Attempt to control"
I would argue that has already occurred.

"Who are the people on the 'other team'?..."
That will be whoever we tell you.
Fear not, you will go along. You will be convinced, or coerced, to go along.

"What is the safest mechanism..."
Above my pay grade.

"How is this transformation going to occur so that it is just and sustainable?"
The planet is boiling. Do what you will with that information.
#EdwardBernays #illusionarytrutheffect #doomed

@gcblasing
Terrans gonna Terran.
🙈 🙉 🙊
#EdwardBernays #propaganda #illusionarytrutheffect #doomed

@AndyGER @angusm
☠️ And millions upon millions will ask for it...
#EdwardBernays #propaganda #illusionarytrutheffect #doomed

@volkris

Government melding with big business is what fascism is. The rest is theatre, ie.the way they do it without people rising up en masse. Ie. it is often *characterised with race-baiting, control of media, and divisive politics but they are to create a false sense of unity. Ie. hating #minorities is a means to consolidate more wealth, power and thus control over people.

Such methods were refined over the 20th century, see #edwardBernays and #SigmundFreud.

The Man Who brainwashed America

https://youtu.be/GdQ6HIzaSm4

#EdwardBernays #Advertisment #Propaganda #Culture #History

'We must shift #America from a needs to a desires #culture. People must be trained to desire, want new things, even before the old are consumed. We must shape a new mentality where desires overshadow needs.'
#EdwardBernays/father of #PR & #SigmundFreud's nephew
#exploitation #evil #Capitalism #Anthropocene #MetaCrisis #ClimateCrisis

Propagandist.in 🧑‍🏫 #EdwardBernays: »Der einzige Unterschied zwischen #Propaganda und #Bildung besteht im Grunde nur in der Sichtweise. Das Eintreten für das, woran wir glauben, ist Bildung. Das Eintreten für das, woran wir nicht glauben, ist Propaganda." #Propagandist.in

@Dianora Education is ... manifold.

There was a great essay I'd run across a few years ago looking at J.S. Mill's take on education as implemented in the 1860s UK, ""John Stuart Mill's Theories of Wealth and Income Distribution". (Review of Social Economy*. Pages 491-507. Published online: 05 Nov 2010.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00346760110081599

I've some notes here: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6x7u6a/on_the_role_of_universities_and_primary_education/

Particularly these excerpts:

First, the universities were given the task of providing an unceasing supply of ideologically correct candidates for vital positions in government, church, and business. The state was able to make the faculties of the "venerable institutions" of higher education, or rather indoctrination, assume this duty because it controlled appointments and held the purse from which "emoluments" flowed into the coffers of academics....

The state devised a second educational strategy in order to prevent such a calamity from occurring. According to Mill, the "elementary schools for children of the working classes" were given the task of ensuring that the poor would continue to accept docilely their dismal station in life. It was very easy for the state to force the public schools to assume this role. It did so simply by failing malignantly to allocate sufficient funds for the operations of what Mill identified contemptuously as "places called schools"

More on both at my Reddit post and of course Jensen's article. He's largely citing Public and Parliamentary Speeches and Essays on England Ireland, and the Empire.

Countering propaganda is another aspect of interest to me, and Bernays's observation is trenchant. Pre-innoculation with anti-propaganda does seem at least somewhat effective.

#Education #JohnStuartMill #HansEJensen #Propaganda #EdwardBernays

.> ... propaganda has a consistent aim: to influence the target to feel a certain way or form a certain opinion about a concept or entity. Propaganda is most often associated with governments, but activist groups, companies, and the media also produce it.

.> Advertising has been the business model that powers the internet since the earliest days of banners, popups, and garish blue hyperlinks; it’s sometimes called “the original sin of the internet.” As anyone who has seen an ad knows, advertising is most effective when it’s targeted and engaging, and the social platforms were uniquely suited both to target and to engage.

.> To help solve the information-glut problem, the platforms have to act as curators. Three curatorial functions in particular have proliferated across the web: search, trending, and recommendation engines. And each of these has become a battleground for motivated propagandists.

.> ... #DARPA researchers believe that memes can change individual and group values and behavior. They fit our information consumption infrastructure: big image, limited text, capable of being understood thoroughly with minimal effort. Person-to-person transmission and social virality tools enable them to spread easily and jump from group to group, evolving and changing as they do.

.> Ridicule is one of the most potent forces for breaking a powerful brand or cutting down a symbol of authority, and meme culture is extraordinarily adept at ridicule.

.> ... “Trolling, it might be said, is the social media equivalent of guerrilla warfare, and memes are its currency of propaganda.” [ #JeffGiesea a #DonaldTrump #ImageManager ]

.> ... Facts are largely irrelevant; a recent study of Twitter from 2006 to 2017 tracked 126,000 rumors spread by 3 million people. “False news reached more people than the truth; the top 1% of false news cascades diffused to between 1000 and 100,000 people, whereas the truth rarely diffused to more than 1000 people. Falsehood also diffused faster than the truth.” The researchers who published this conclusion, Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral, noted that false news “was more novel than true news,” and suggested that novelty might be one reason people shared it.

.> ... #HerbertSimon put it, “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”

.> ... if you control the messages, you control the people reading them...

#AlsexCarey in #TakingTheRiskOutOfDemocracy writes of #Propaganda, the #PR techniques like the #MowhakValleyForumula being used in 1919 during the #GreatSteelStrike. They were working 84-hour weeks in bad conditions and still had pubiic opinion turned against them. In addition to #HaroldLasswell he quotes #WalterLippman and #EdwardBernays too. #SamuelGompers had a tough time!

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Props to @AlexJones
The Creation Of MSM
#MSM #MockingbirdMedia #cia #exposed #CNN #ExposeCNN #news #infowars #alexjones #edwardbernays #bernays

Your step-by-step guide to #propaganda and #electionRigging, and how it continues to be done, courtesy of the venerable #AdamCurtis.

The Century Of The Self:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

#electionRigging #USElection #BBC #edwardBernays #sigmundFreud #engineeringOfConsent #militarism #childAbuse #junkFood #rupertMurdoch #publicRelations #memes #television #programming #surveillance #stockMarkets #centralBanking #robertReich #smoking #war #okayBoomer #babyboomer #democracy

Your step-by-step guide to #propaganda and #electionRigging, and continues to be done, courtesy of the venerable #AdamCurtis.

The Century Of The Self:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

#electionRigging #USElection #BBC #edwardBernays #sigmundFreud #engineeringOfConsent #militarism #childAbuse #junkFood #rupertMurdoch #publicRelations #memes #newspaper #television #programming #surveillance #stockMarkets #centralBanking #robertReich #smoking #war #okayBoomer #babyboomer #democracy