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: 26 March 2017 02:57 pm (UTC)--from the Bernays Wiki