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Marshall McLuhan | manage the public’s perception of a subject

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“Publicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the public’s perception of a subject. The subjects of publicity include people (for example, politicians and performing artists), goods and services, organizations of all kinds, and works of art or entertainment.” Marshall McLuhan | Philosoph, The Extensions of Man “Öffentlichkeitsarbeit ist der bewusste Versuch, die öffentliche Wahrnehmung eines Themas zu steuern. Zu den Subjekten der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit gehören Menschen (z.B. Politiker und darstellende Künstler), Waren und Dienstleistungen, Organisationen aller Art sowie Kunst- und Unterhaltungswerke.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Thomas Jefferson | ignorant and free

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“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson “Wenn von einer Nation erwartet wird, dass sie [gleichzeitig] ignorant und frei sei, wird etwas erwartet, das nie war und nie sein wird.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Milton Friedman | Every friend of freedom

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“Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.” Milton Friedman “Jeder Freund der Freiheit muss genauso empört sein wie ich über die Aussicht, die Vereinigten Staaten in ein bewaffnetes Lager zu verwandeln, über die Vision von Gefängnissen, die mit gelegentlichen Drogenkonsumenten gefüllt sind, und von einer Armee von Vollstreckern,…

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Mahatma Gandhi | who dare to question authority

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“The world cannot be improved if everyone blindly follows the majority. It needs people who have the courage to question the seemingly irrefutable, who dare to question authority and use their own minds.” Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) | Indischer Pazifist und Anführer der indischen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung “Die Welt lässt sich nicht verbessern, wenn alle blind der Mehrheit folgen. Es braucht Menschen, die den Mut haben scheinbar Unumstössliches infrage zu stellen, die sich trauen, Autoritäten anzuzweifeln und ihren eigenen Verstand zu gebrauchen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Aldous Huxley | Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control

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“Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.” Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World “Unpersönliche Kräfte, über die wir fast keine Kontrolle haben, scheinen uns alle in Richtung des Albtraums der Schönen Neuen Welt…

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Edward Bernays | motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda

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“The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.” Edward Bernays “Der amerikanische…

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Walter Ulbricht | it must look democratic

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“it must look democratic but we must control everything” Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht (Anfang Mai 1945, zitiert in: Wolfgang Leonhard: Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder (1955)) “Es muß demokratisch aussehen, aber wir müssen alles in der Hand haben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Gib ihnen am Morgen eine Lügenzeitung

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“Give them a lying newspaper in the morning, let them work a lot during the day for little money and bring the latest manipulated news on TV in the evening, alternating with dumbed-down shows, movies and commercials. Thus they have no more time to think consciously.” Autor Unbekannt “Gib ihnen am Morgen eine Lügenzeitung, lass sie tagsüber für wenig Geld viel arbeiten und bring am Abend im Fernsehen die neuesten manipulierten Nachrichten, abwechselnd mit Verblödungsshows, Filmen und Werbung. Somit haben die keine Zeit mehr, um bewusst nachzudenken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche…

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Edward Bernays | The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions

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“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. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they…

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Albert Pike | We always give the public their heroes

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“We always give the public their heroes. We give the heroes to every faction, and then people once they hear this person say all the right things, we give releases to them because he or she speaks for ‘me’. We say go there go do that and they do it. We give our power to the authorized heroes.” Albert Pike, (the Pope of Freemasonry in the 1800’s) “Wir geben der Öffentlichkeit immer ihre Helden. Wir geben jeder Fraktion, jeder Seite ihre Helden und wenn die Leute dann hören, dass diese…

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Stephen C. Perkins | psychological warfare, economic and political transformation

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“The cavalier expression of such sentiments, the resurrection of a dormant specter from the crypt of America’s “cold war” with the former Soviet Union, is meant purely to foster the viral spread of collective apprehension in the fragile heart of the population which, over the centuries, has proved to be the Jesuit order’s most effective tool in the execution of psychological warfare, economic and political transformation (AKA order out of chaos), and social behavioral modification. Turns out, the looming threat of annihilation at the hands of “nuclear weapons” or viral…

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Hannah Arendt | those who choose the lesser evil

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“In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.[….] Acceptance of the lesser evil is deliberately used to accustom officials, as well as the population at large, to accept the evil itself.” Hannah Arendt “Bei ihrer moralischen…

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Marshall McLuhan | The ad teams have billions to spend annually on research

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“No group of sociologists can approximate the ad teams in the gathering and processing of exploitable social data. The ad teams have billions to spend annually on research and testing of reactions, and their products are magnificent accumulations of material about the shared experience and feelings of the entire community.” Marshall McLuhan Philosoph, The Extensions of Man “Keine Gruppe von Soziologen kann den Werbe-Teams bei der Erfassung und Verarbeitung von auswertbaren sozialen Daten annähernd die Stange halten. Die Werbeabteilungen können jährlich Milliarden für Forschung und Tests von Reaktionen ausgeben, und…

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Walter Lippmann | The process by which public opinions arise

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“That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. . . . as a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power. . . ….

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Vilfredo Pareto | All governments use force

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“All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to’the will of the people’the expression which the few desire.” Vilfredo Pareto (Quoted in Arthur Livingstone | The Mind and Society 1935) “Alle Regierungen wenden Gewalt an, und alle behaupten, dass sie auf Vernunft gegründet sind. Unabhängig davon, ob es ein allgemeines Wahlrecht gibt oder nicht, ist es in Wirklichkeit immer eine Oligarchie, die regiert und Wege findet,…

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George Orwell | To keep them in control was not difficult

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“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern…Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” George Orwell, 1984 “Solange sie (die Proleten)…

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Ayn Rand | you may know that your society is doomed

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“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded…

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Aldous Huxley | The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy

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“The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude.” Aldous Huxley (Is doubted and is probably a quote from the „European Graduate School“ see here “Die perfekte Diktatur wird den Anschein einer Demokratie machen, einem Gefängnis ohne Mauern, in dem die Gefangenen nicht einmal davon träumen auszubrechen. Es ist ein System der Sklaverei, bei dem die Sklaven dank Konsum und Unterhaltung ihre Liebe…

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Jack Posobiec | homogenized consumer class of worker drones

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“You’re going to be a homogenized consumer class of worker drones in order for them to establish Elysium, and this is also where … the metaverse comes in. Transhumanism, this is your bread and circuses now. It’s virtual bread and circuses to distract you from the suffering that goes on all around you.” Jack Posobiec | Eat Bugs, Live In Your Pod, Own Nothing and Be Happy: Wilsonian Thought Has Long Been Shaping Citizens into Serfs “Ihr werdet eine homogenisierte Konsumentenklasse von Arbeitsdrohnen sein, damit sie Elysium errichten können, und…

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James Dresden | Die ideale Tyrannei

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“Die ideale Tyrannei ist die, die ignorant von seinen Opfern selbstverwaltet wird. Die perfektesten Sklaven sind deshalb die, die sich glückselig und unbewusst versklaven lassen.” James Dresden (Niemand scheint die Quelle dieses Zitats zu kennen. Bei Dresden James handelt es sich vermutlich um Donald James Wheal, einen britischen Fernsehautor, Romanautor und Sachbuchautor.) “The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links Dieses Zitat wird Dresden James zugeschrieben. Das vollständige Zitat…

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Noam Chomsky | The general population doesn’t know

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“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.” Noam Chomsky “Die Mehrheit der gewöhnlichen Bevölkerung versteht nicht was wirklich geschieht. Und sie versteht noch nicht einmal, dass sie es nicht versteht.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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José Ortega y Gasset | Universal suffrage

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“Universal suffrage did not give the masses the right to decide, but to approve the decision of one elite or another.” José Ortega y Gasset (spanischer Philosoph, Schriftsteller und Soziologe Aufstand der Massen | Eine statistische Tatsache) “Das allgemeine Stimmrecht gab der Masse nicht das Recht zu entscheiden, sondern die Entscheidung der einen oder andern Elite gutzuheißen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Rudolf Augstein | It does not really matter

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“It does not really matter whether democracy functions according to it’s original idea but rather that it is seen as functional by the population.” Rudolf Augstein (deutscher Journalist, Verleger und Publizist | Gründer des Nachrichtenmagazins “Der Spiegel”) “Es kommt nicht so sehr darauf an, daß die Demokratie nach ihrer ursprünglichen Idee funktioniert, sondern daß sie von der Bevölkerung als funktionierend empfunden wird.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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George Bernard Shaw | The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings

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“The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.” George Bernard Shaw | irischer Schriftsteller “Der politiker, der ehemals lernen mußte, wie man Königen schmeichelt, muß jetzt lernen, wie man die Phantasie der Wähler bezaubert, unterhält, bestrickt, beschwindelt, erschreckt oder sonst irgendwie verblüfft.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Hans Herbert von Arnim | legitimizing power despite its democratic shortcomings

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“The political class is supported by the many-thousand-voiced chorus of those who are committed to it by the already accomplished or still hoped-for awarding of offices and dignities. The proof of deficiencies is made difficult at the outset by the fact that there is an abundance of thought patterns (paradigms), formulas and theories that support the basic ideological thesis of the quasi-automatic functioning of the system. They seek to close the gap between norm and reality not by improving reality, but by interpreting the norm laxly or by obfuscating reality….

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Bertrand Russell | system of deception

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“Educational systems have been developed not to impart genuine knowledge but to make the people docile to the will of the rulers. Without a sophisticated system of deception in schools, it would be impossible to maintain the appearance of democracy. It is not desired that ordinary citizens think for themselves. Because it is believed that people who think for themselves are difficult to handle. Only the elites are supposed to think. The rest are supposed to obey and follow their leaders, like a herd of mutton. This doctrine has corrupted…

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Steve Jacobson | Political and economic power

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“Political and economic power in the United States is concentrated in the hands of a “ruling elite” that controls most of U.S.-based multinational corporations, major communication media, the most influential foundations, major private universities and most public utilities. Founded in 1921, the Council of Foreign Relations is the key link between the large corporations and the federal government. It has been called a “school for statesmen” and “comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite – a group of men, similar in…

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Jacques Ellul | propaganda refines its techniques.

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“It is with knowledge of the human being, his tendencies, his desires, his needs, his psychic mechanisms, his automatisms as well as knowledge of social psychology and analytical psychology that propaganda refines its techniques.” Jacques Ellul (war ein französischer Soziologe und Theologe.) “Mit der Kenntnis des Menschen, seiner Neigungen, seiner Wünsche, seiner Bedürfnisse, seiner psychischen Mechanismen, seiner Automatismen sowie mit der Kenntnis der Sozialpsychologie und der analytischen Psychologie verfeinert die Propaganda ihre Techniken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…