"We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Mark Crispin Miller
I have had this book waiting to be read. There are eleven chapters. I will go through this book and make comments. Sarcasm will of course follow. After reading the first three parts of the introduction I already have the first thing I can be sarcastic about. That is the use of the phrase 'plutocratic bias.' If you don't know what that is don't feel bad I had to Google it myself. In a nutshell, it is the government that favors the wealthy. No, I don't mean Youtube star wealthy. They are just a bunch of meatheads that got lucky. I am talking about Bill Gates and Warren Buffett along with Rockefeller and Rothschilds wealthy. It's disgusting and we are starting to see more people waking up to the fact that the ultra-wealthy own governments. The introduction part two makes it clear that our (yours and my) opinions aren't necessarily our own. Rather they are formed and engineered in the direction desired.
Brace yourselves. Eventually, Mr. Bernays realized he was wrong about tobacco. When he did, according to Mr. Miller Edward Bernays immediately started to campaign against the use of tobacco. However, sometimes you can't put the Genie back in the bottle. By the mid-1950s people were starting to realize how disgusting smoking was and started putting the death sticks down. But no 'respectable' magazine would think of betraying big tobacco. Big tobacco had its claws in people. They were raking in billions and had no plans to stop.
This was just the introduction. I am sure there will be more of this insanity to come.
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