{"id":20244,"date":"2016-04-25T15:03:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20244"},"modified":"2016-04-25T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T20:03:15","slug":"mind-control-its-happening-to-you-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20244","title":{"rendered":"Mind Control: It\u2019s Happening to You Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patternsofmeaning.com\/2016\/04\/21\/mind-control-its-happening-to-you-right-now\/\">Mind Control: It\u2019s Happening to You Right\u00a0Now<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Your mind is being controlled by distant strangers who don\u2019t have your best interests at heart. If that sounds like a paranoid fantasy, brace yourself and read on. These are the findings of a series of scientific studies that show how a few dominant institutions have the power to affect how you feel, how you act, and even how you vote \u2013 without you ever knowing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Deliberate\u00a0mind manipulation of the masses is, by itself, nothing new. Nearly a hundred years ago, our global mania for consumption\u00a0was unleashed\u00a0by\u00a0the malevolent brilliance of\u00a0\u00a0Edward Bernays, known as the \u201cfather of public relations.\u201d Bernays was Sigmund Freud\u2019s nephew and used his uncle\u2019s insights into the subconscious to develop his new methods of mind control,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">designed to create the modern American consumer.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" data-shortcode=\"caption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1695\" src=\"https:\/\/patternsofmeaning.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/bernays-1.png?w=575&amp;h=320\" alt=\"Bernays-1\" width=\"575\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Bernays: the father of modern consumer culture \u2013\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0Waking Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe must shift America from a needs to a desires culture,\u201d declared Bernays\u2019 business partner, Paul Mazur. \u201cPeople must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality. Man\u2019s desires must overshadow his needs.\u201d In 1928, Bernays proudly described how his techniques for mental manipulation had permitted a small elite to control the minds of the American population:<\/p>\n<h6>[T]he 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 that is the true ruling power of this country. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of\u2026 In almost every act of our daily lives\u2026 we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons\u00a0\u2026 who pull the wires which control the public mind.<a href=\"https:\/\/patternsofmeaning.com\/2016\/04\/21\/mind-control-its-happening-to-you-right-now\/#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind Control: It\u2019s Happening to You Right\u00a0Now Your mind is being controlled by distant strangers who don\u2019t have your best interests at heart. If that sounds like a paranoid fantasy, brace yourself and read on. 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