Before WWI, one of America's leading propagandists for government
was Edward Bernays. Bernays openly sought to use social psychology, political
persuasion and advertising to construct “necessary illusions” which were
fed to the masses as “reality.” Bernays described it as “engineering of
consent.” The objective for Bernays was to show government, government schools
and government-regulated media outlets how to gain control.
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Edward Bernays' impact was similar to (and built upon) that of America's
most notorious and lasting propagandists for "Military Socialism" and
"National Socialism": Edward Bellamy and Francis Bellamy (author of the "Pledge
of Allegiance" in 1892). The "Pledge of Allegiance" produced America's
stiff-arm salute and robotic chanting to flags in government's schools,
where segregation was imposed by law, and racism was taught as official policy.
See the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4
In the United States and elsewhere, America's stiff-arm salute began to
spread outside of the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. The gesture was directed
toward government officials who were often on stage with the flag at mass
meetings where the Pledge was led.
Bellamy's pledge was the origin of the stiff-arm salute adopted later
by the National Socialist German Workers Party, as shown in the work of
the symbologist Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets").
http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg
By 1915, National Socialism
in the USA had inspired propagandistic presentations of the American flag
posed favorably with a swastika and the phrase "May our glorious
flag and this lucky star guide you and keep you wherever you are." http://rexcurry.net/swastika-flag2.JPG
Another piece of propaganda from the USA
bears a swastika and the wording: "Lucky Star - May this emblem
protect you well from every bullet, every shell." http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-protect-from-bullet-shell.jpg
In 1917, Edward Bernays and Walter Lippman helped Woodrow Wilson
break his campaign promises and con Americans into WWI. To that end they
used the Committee on Public Information (CPI ) also known
as the Creel Committee. They helped Wilson foment anti-German
hate during WWI. Of course, WWI led to WWII and so forth, ad infinitum,
ad nauseum.
Bernays also created the patriotic war slogan “Make the World Safe
for Democracy” -a patriotic mantra that many stupid Americans embraced
just as they had earlier embraced Bellamy's "Pledge of Allegiance," America's
straight-arm gesture, and mechanical chanting to flags in mass and on
cue.
Bernays’ books "Crystallizing Public Opinion" (1923) and "Propaganda"
(1928) impressed Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister for the National
Socialist German Workers Party. Germany mimicked American behavior
because Goebbels learned from the behavior of Bernays, President Wilson,
and the U.S. government during World War I. http://rexcurry.net/swastika3swastika.jpg
In 1933, Bernays met Karl von Weigand (a German journalist) who
informed Bernays that Goebbels was using Bernays' work for Goebbels'
propaganda campaigns fomenting hate, robotic chanting, straight-arm salutes,
the use of government schools, children, and more. http://rexcurry.net/swastika-nazi-sozi-goebbels.html
"If I approach the masses with reasoned arguments, they will not
understand me," Hitler noted in Mein Kampf, "In the mass meeting, their
reasoning power is paralysed. What I say is like an order given under hypnosis."
To this day, laws continue to order children to hypnotically chant in
the Pledge of Allegiance ritual each morning in many schools in the USA.
The gesture has changed.
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