To break it apart and make weaker. Under false pretenses. Nothing new actually, now it is a series of countries that have undergone the same treatment. Militarism in its beauty. I don't see how the citizens of US and other allies do not see military intervention, as if they truly believe it is all liberation. No, I bet most of them just try not to think about it. As long as they are comfortable. That's why they love their churches so much, to make themselves feel better after lots of sins that make their consciousness uneasy.
I am not really defending Americans. I was very much against the bombing of Jugoslavia. But Americans are kept stupid and ignorant by the government and the schools. Most Americans are very ill educated. So, it is less malice than stupidity.
Well, I made a generalization. Probably lots of people were against. And I agree that education is very important in order for people to become aware of things and intelligently question them. But again, who is going to educate people? The ruling class have the money and they do everything to degrade people. Although, I see little glimpses of hope in younger generation. For example, I read that they reject e-books and prefer printed. Maybe there is still some hope.
I think that there were not many Americans against the bombing of Jugoslavia because they either didn't understand or didn't care. Again, they are kept ignorant and stupid by their leaders. They were told by the Jews in power (Albright and Holbrooke, especially) that Milosevic was like Hitler and the Serbs (Serbs, not Jugslavs) were like Nazis. So, who can question that? You always have to be against whatever is named Nazi.
Hm... Could imagine something like that. Americans have barely an idea about European structures and ongoings, you could probably tell them any tale, about some country which doesn't belong to the famous Western ones they maybe heard about here or there, and they'd be able to believe it. The Europeans you can do this with do, see the Ukraine conflict and the constant repeating of "the annexion of Krim" in media without ever mentioning in between "until the '54 it was part of Russia, Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine, probably for the easier administration of the peninsula". Or the economical disaster in Greece. You got it pretty easily hammered into normal German heads that "Greeks are lazy", the mantra of the EU to cover up an imperial sell-out. If it's about territory that's barely ever the center of attention, I think, one can do this pretty easily. Only few percents of people go and do some research like "I wanna know his exactly"; part of them doesn't do because they like it easy, part of them lacks the brains to grasp it, part of them also does it because they don't have the time for it, besides all the fucking working more hours than the contract says.
I guess nobody cares unless it concerns them personally. And it is quite amazing how people just trust everything that is being labeled one way or another. I know mass culture and lack of quality education impairs people's critical thinking. But it is amazing how easily people believe everything they are told without any basis.
For the Americans themselves, I don't know. The impression I got previously is: It all works by the daily keeping them in the mental state of children and keeping them away from real information. Keeping them away at all from information what happens throughout the rest of the world at all! Don't know if you know - why does Hollywood always make its own remake of any foreign film that makes it to get successful? Well, just because for the sake of it. Because someone or something or some entity thinks it's better for all Americans if they don't see anything from the world outside of their own latitudes. Aka "American mind won't be able to understand foreign culture and customs, they need something they're used to, they can TRUST". Keep information away from your people and see how stupid they get about the world...
And it is amazing that it is multinational itself. But I got an impression that different nationalities there adjust to mass culture really quick and kind of lose their identity. Unlike what we had in the Soviet Union, which is getting the best from each nation and adopting to it. I think clinging to the mass culture makes people narrow-minded. Not to mention, it degrades them. Meanwhile all these mass-cultural traditions are pandering towards capitalists, even holidays, for example, how much junk everyone will buy and how much profit corporations will make. But everyone gets crazy and buys into it.
Well, that's remarkable how quick that comes. On the other hand, you can see it doesn't come like out of the blue, it's literally like the US "conquered" the world. Not only by literal war, but just through the back door. Through the way of culture and mindset. I don't know if they once had had really good psychologists within their marketing departments within their enterprises or organizers of the state that help these enterprise structures, so that they had the best tools to slip them the shit that America wanted to sell to the world and therefore worked so well. Or, if it once, in past times, really was the contents that people ate and swallowed, like they had a knack for what people wanted to see. Like being really gifted in making up something that sells very well because the audience truly likes it from their own free will. I can't say which one of both it is more. The answer, I could think, would help in battling the cultural superiority that now is like something that keeps itself alive all by its own meanwhile.
This will provide some answers: Stunned by the degree to which the democracy slogan had swayed the public both at home and abroad, he wondered whether this propaganda model could be employed during peacetime.[citation needed] Due to negative implications surrounding the word propaganda because of its use by the Germans in World War I, he promoted the term public relations.[citation needed] According to the BBC interview with Bernays' daughter Anne, Bernays believed that the public's democratic judgment was "not to be relied upon" and feared that the American public "could very easily vote for the wrong man or want the wrong thing, so that they had to be guided from above." Anne interpreted "guidance" to mean that her father believed in a sort of "enlightened despotism".[7]
It seems that, besides being screened, I cannot put a link in my comment.
I tired to put a link to the Wiki for Edward Bernays. This man was responsible for much of what you talk about. He was responsible for making bacon an American breakfast food. He is the father of Public Relations.
I think I came across another name also in context with the topic "controlling the public opinion and influence on small peoples' minds". Researched, it was the name of someone called "Lewis Powell". He also once had been a Judge at the Supreme Court of the US long time ago.
I think it's been a bunch of people who established this subtle psychological component in public influencing; slowly but surely this strategy went all around the globe, but the most in Western countries. Also due to occupation by or obsession with the US.
Bernays also pioneered the public relations industry's use of psychology and other social sciences to design its public persuasion campaigns: "If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits."[9] He called this scientific technique of opinion-molding the engineering of consent.[10]
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Date: 24 March 2017 11:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 24 March 2017 07:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 24 March 2017 09:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 26 March 2017 02:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 26 March 2017 04:53 pm (UTC)Americans have barely an idea about European structures and ongoings, you could probably tell them any tale, about some country which doesn't belong to the famous Western ones they maybe heard about here or there, and they'd be able to believe it.
The Europeans you can do this with do, see the Ukraine conflict and the constant repeating of "the annexion of Krim" in media without ever mentioning in between "until the '54 it was part of Russia, Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine, probably for the easier administration of the peninsula".
Or the economical disaster in Greece. You got it pretty easily hammered into normal German heads that "Greeks are lazy", the mantra of the EU to cover up an imperial sell-out.
If it's about territory that's barely ever the center of attention, I think, one can do this pretty easily. Only few percents of people go and do some research like "I wanna know his exactly"; part of them doesn't do because they like it easy, part of them lacks the brains to grasp it, part of them also does it because they don't have the time for it, besides all the fucking working more hours than the contract says.
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Date: 26 March 2017 05:28 pm (UTC)Where you born in the USA?
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Date: 29 March 2017 03:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 24 March 2017 07:52 pm (UTC)The impression I got previously is: It all works by the daily keeping them in the mental state of children and keeping them away from real information. Keeping them away at all from information what happens throughout the rest of the world at all!
Don't know if you know - why does Hollywood always make its own remake of any foreign film that makes it to get successful? Well, just because for the sake of it. Because someone or something or some entity thinks it's better for all Americans if they don't see anything from the world outside of their own latitudes. Aka "American mind won't be able to understand foreign culture and customs, they need something they're used to, they can TRUST".
Keep information away from your people and see how stupid they get about the world...
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Date: 24 March 2017 09:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 25 March 2017 12:11 am (UTC)On the other hand, you can see it doesn't come like out of the blue, it's literally like the US "conquered" the world. Not only by literal war, but just through the back door. Through the way of culture and mindset.
I don't know if they once had had really good psychologists within their marketing departments within their enterprises or organizers of the state that help these enterprise structures, so that they had the best tools to slip them the shit that America wanted to sell to the world and therefore worked so well. Or, if it once, in past times, really was the contents that people ate and swallowed, like they had a knack for what people wanted to see. Like being really gifted in making up something that sells very well because the audience truly likes it from their own free will.
I can't say which one of both it is more.
The answer, I could think, would help in battling the cultural superiority that now is like something that keeps itself alive all by its own meanwhile.
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Date: 26 March 2017 02:43 pm (UTC)Stunned by the degree to which the democracy slogan had swayed the public both at home and abroad, he wondered whether this propaganda model could be employed during peacetime.[citation needed] Due to negative implications surrounding the word propaganda because of its use by the Germans in World War I, he promoted the term public relations.[citation needed] According to the BBC interview with Bernays' daughter Anne, Bernays believed that the public's democratic judgment was "not to be relied upon" and feared that the American public "could very easily vote for the wrong man or want the wrong thing, so that they had to be guided from above." Anne interpreted "guidance" to mean that her father believed in a sort of "enlightened despotism".[7]
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Date: 26 March 2017 02:47 pm (UTC)I tired to put a link to the Wiki for Edward Bernays. This man was responsible for much of what you talk about. He was responsible for making bacon an American breakfast food. He is the father of Public Relations.
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Date: 26 March 2017 05:09 pm (UTC)I think it's been a bunch of people who established this subtle psychological component in public influencing; slowly but surely this strategy went all around the globe, but the most in Western countries. Also due to occupation by or obsession with the US.
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Date: 26 March 2017 02:57 pm (UTC)--from the Bernays Wiki